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
13177
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/09/1962
Date of Amendment
30/03/1995
Name of Property
Church of St Dyfan and St Teilo
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Barry
Town
Locality
Merthyr Dyfan
Easting
311495
Northing
169458
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
C13 nave and chancel, C16 W tower, restoration of 1857 added porch, and altered windows. Restoration of tower 1909, and other parts of church in 1970s.
Exterior
Grey rubble with quoins in red stone; bathstone dressings, slate roofs. Square unbuttressed W tower has shallow staircase projection to N, castellated parapet on corbels, 4 stages. Steeply-pitched gabled S porch with Gothic arch, stone benches, window to E side. To L of porch, window with cusped head and square hoodmould, to R of porch, window with 2 cusped lights (square hoodmould), further window to R. N elevation of nave has 2-light window to W, single light window to E. Chancel has two lancets to S, high 2-light E window.
In churchyard to S of church is base of medieval Churchyard cross consisting of square socket on base of 2 square steps.
Interior
Chamfered chancel arch; C15/C16 arch-braced roof. Gothic wooden reredos of 1933, original medieval altar slab replaced 1974.
Reason for designation
Church graded II* as substantially complete late medieval building.
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