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
11293
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/09/1986  
Date of Amendment
29/09/1986  
Name of Property
St Mary Nolton Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Bridgend  
Community
Bridgend  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
290523  
Northing
179444  
Street Side
 
Location
Beside the road with churchyard to E.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Formerly a chapel of ease to St Mary Coity. Begun July 1885, work delayed by 1886 storm damage, consecrated November 1887 and spire added in 1897; designed by John Prichard, Llandaff Diocesan Architect, completed by Frederick Kempson.  

Exterior
Early English style cruciform plan with lean-to aisles, 4-stage tower and later polygonal spire with weathervane to NW. Bull-nosed rubble masonry, freestone dressings, spire and gable parapets; stepped buttresses and plinth. Slate roofs with corbelled and coursed eaves. Western type blind lancet panelled corner tourelles flanking lucarnes over belfrey lancets; paired square headed windows below; porch with foliated capitals and stopped hoodmould to N face. Tripartite W window with bar tracery to centre over gabled porch to similar entrance. Paired lancets to aisles, alternating in the clerestory with single lancets; 4 grouped lancets to chancel S side; plate tracery E window with paterae and punched trefoil to gable. Gable ended organ chamber extends to N with petal pattern roundel above 2-light window; paired cylindrical stacks at main eaves level. Ashlar 2-storey interior with wagon roofs, boarded over the sanctuary. 3-bay aisled nave, W bay of N aisle forming lobby under tower which has head stops by Clarke of Llandaff of Prichard and the Rector’s wife. 1 ½ bay chancel with S vestry and N organ chamber. Chamfered nave arcades on cylindrical E E piers with paired corbel responds on varied carved stops. Filleted shafts and annulettes to windows; continuous clerestory arcade, blind to chancel N side. Broad arches into organ chamber and vestry.  

Interior
Fine S aisle war memorial and Gothic tryptych reredos, depicting the Adoration of the Magi, by J Coates Carter. S aisle stained glass by W F Dixon of London, 1887; E window? Seddon. Gothic furnishings.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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