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
11108
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
18/03/1988  
Date of Amendment
24/06/1991  
Name of Property
St Tyfi's Church (now Interpretation Centre)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llandeilo  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
262193  
Northing
222216  
Street Side
 
Location
On the S edge of wooded parkland at Dynevor Castle (Newton House) and overlooking Afon Tywi. Reached by track of W from Llandeilo Bridge.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
Small stone church of medieval origin but almost entirely rebuilt in later Cl9, possibly to designs by R Kyrke Pearson, architect of Oswestry who redesigned Newton House for Lord Dynevor. Plan of unified chancel and nave with medieval (?) S aisle set back to left; W porch, lean-to S vestry and gabled N vestry. Rubble facings, freestone dressings, stone slate roofs, gable parapets with crucifix finials and twin bellcote openings to W end; chimney to E gable of S aisle. 3-light perpendicular E windows under rectangular drips, barred lights. 2-light traceried windows under pointed hoods to W front (with vertical masonry joint). Tall S aisle with blocked pointed doorway. W-porch with diagonal buttresses and wide 4-centred arch with hoodmoulded nook shafts to 4-centred door. Fine steeply sloping burial ground with old headstones.  

Interior
Interior has open arched-brace roofs with collar-beams and stone corbels, fretted wall-plates to chancel. 3-bay aisle arcade with octagonal piers and hoodmoulds; pointed boarded doors with strip work hinges.  

Reason for designation
Church of moderate architectural interest in an exceptional location at Dynevor Park.  

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