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
11223
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/07/1963
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Church of St Tudwg
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Merthyr Mawr
Town
Locality
Tythegston
Easting
285775
Northing
178818
Street Side
Location
Set back from E side of minor road through the hamlet, in a walled churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
First mentioned in 1173 when it was a chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey but an early Christian monument in the churchyard and the dedication to a Celtic saint suggest an earlier foundation. The present building is late medieval in origin but was almost completely rebuilt by John Prichard in 1876. Became redundant late C20.
Exterior
Tudor-Gothic style church consisting of nave with bellcote and S porch, and a lower chancel. Battered rubble stone walls, coped gables and slate roof (part renewed). The nave has a 2-light window L of porch, 3-light to R, to R of which is a shallow projection (probably for a side altar). The porch has a plain 2-centred S doorway. Inside the porch is a pointed arched-brace roof and a S door similar to W and priest's door. The chancel has two 2-light S windows, a central late-medieval priest's door with 2-centred head and stop-chamfer surround, and a boarded door with decorative strap hinges. The E window has a renewed 3-light Perpendicular window. The N walls of chancel and nave have 1- and 2-light windows respectively. The W wall of the nave has a late-medieval doorway similar to but wider than priest's door. Above is a late-medieval 2-light window with ogee-headed lights. Gabled bellcote has a single segmental-pointed opening containing a single bell of late C14 or early C15 date.
Interior
The chancel arch is late-medieval and Tudor-headed. The remainder of the interior is C19. The nave has an arched-brace roof, the chancel a roof with scissor braces on short wall posts, and with a boarded ceilure over the sanctuary.
The font has a round bowl and pedestal, C13 but re-tooled C19. The plain round pulpit has a frieze of blind quatrefoils. The E window has early C20 glass depicting Christ, Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, by Jones & Willis. In the chancel N wall are 2 neo-classical tablets: to Lucy Lord (d.1856), with a willow draped over an urn, by T. Gaffin of London; and to Elizabeth Puget (undated) by Henry Wood. Other C17 and C18 wall tablets are in the nave, some brought in from outside during the 1876 restoration.
Reason for designation
A small parish church with medieval origins, retaining good C19 detail.
Cross in churchyard is Scheduled Ancient Monument GM 214.
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