Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
11312
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/09/1986  
Date of Amendment
29/09/1986  
Name of Property
Church of St Illtyd  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Bridgend  
Community
Bridgend  
Town
 
Locality
Newcastle  
Easting
290262  
Northing
180039  
Street Side
NE  
Location
To S of the castle, high above the town.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Victorian Decorated Gothic rebuilding of early C14 church with C16 3-stage W tower, 4-bay nave with SW porch, N aisle added in 1849/50, slightly lower chancel with N vestry built in 1893/4.  

Exterior
Coursed and bull-nosed rubble masonry, freestone dressings, gable parapets crucifix finials and eaves courses; slate roofs, cylindrical chimney to vestry. Corbelled and crenellated tower parapet with crocketed finials, grotesques and SE angle stair turret. Paired bell stage openings with Tudor hood moulds; similar window over W entrance. Curved sided triangle window beside nook shafted SW porch. 2-light Y-tracery and impaled trefoil windows to N and S, except to N nave aisle which has similar single light windows. 3-light E windows with intersecting and impaled trefoil tracery. Churchyard which retains 1st World War Memorial with the crucifixion is entered through lychgate donated in 1910 by Samuel Llewellyn of Coed Parc.  

Interior
Rendered interior with freestone dressings; open timber roofs, boarded and with ornate wall plate to chancel. Chamfered nave arcade with head stops, carried on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Stopped base to tower arch with Gothic screen and plaster ceiled tower chamber. Heavily foliated capitals and corbel shafts to inner order of chancel arch; similar arches to vestry, W and S sides. Chancel retains C14 piscina and sedilia with crocketed gable canopies. 1894 Gothic reredos and choir stalls with carved fish by Clarke of Llandaff. Window surrounds and monuments fron original chancel are retained in Victorian vestry; double cusped and crocketed ogee rere arches to N side; many C17/C18 and C19 wall monuments, two with semicircular hoods and flanked by free standing columns, one of which is to Philip Gamage, died 1675. Tower chamber retains 3 important medieval C11/C12 tombstones, heavily worn.  

Reason for designation
 

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