Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10574
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/09/1964
Date of Amendment
13/01/1993
Name of Property
Church of St Tysul
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llandysul
Town
Locality
Easting
241903
Northing
240692
Street Side
Location
Situated by River Teifi in large churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C13 to C15 Anglican parish church, altered 1829-31 by Rees Davies of Trewindsor, and restored 1873-4 by Middleton and Goodman of Cheltenham. W tower, nave, aisles, and chancel.
Exterior
Fine tall tower, said to be C13 but details C15, high battered plinth with moulded pointed W door, hollow-moulded with eroded hood, C19 doors. Above plinth 3-light Perpendicular style traceried window with hood, marked 'renewed 1847', set at base of tall undifferentiated battered tower with small 2-light cusped bell-openings of C15 type, corbel table and parapet. Corner gargoyles. NE stair tower.
Nave and chancel with slate roofs, terracotta ridges and cross finials to coped cables. Lean-to aisles. N aisle has 1874 Bath stone N door, moulded and shafted. Ancient carved cross in stonework above, then 2 pointed windows with intersected tracery, possible of 1830. S aisle has one 1874 window with ballflower decoration and 2 with intersected tracery. Chancel rebuilt 1874 has arched blocked opening on N side, traceried N window, ornate traceried E window with reset carved head above. S chancel lean-to with traceried window and door.
Interior
Tower has rubble barrel vault, rare in Cardiganshire, inscribed Romano-British stone reset on N wall and hollow-moulded depressed-arched N stair door.
Late C19 timber tower screen. Nave has sturdy unmoulded pointed 3-bay arcades on square rubble piers, all plastered before 1874, and king-post roof of 1874. Similar arches to tower and chancel. N aisle has retooled medieval 4-lobe font on circular pier, and C20 Lady Chapel altar includes ancient cross-inscribed stone found near Coedfoel. Rood-loft stairs to right. S aisle has E end squint. Ornate 1874 stone pulpit by Boulton of Cheltenham.
Chancel has 1874 roof, arch-braced trusses on stone angel corbels. East window ornately traceried, with stained glass of c1919 by W E Tower.
Monuments: at E end of S aisle slate slab to John Lewis of Dinascerdin (d1788), in nave fine marble plaques to Eliza Lloyd of Alltyrodin (d1805) and to D Lloyd (d1822) signed D Mainwaring. In N aisle Gothic marble monument to John Lloyd (d1841).
Reference: Church is said to have been thatched until 1783. A picture of 1859 in vestry shows a low single roof over nave and S aisle. The 1874 restoration is said to have involved the complete rebuilding of the chancel and raising of the nave roof.
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring listed buildings.
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