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
13395
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/05/1975  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1995  
Name of Property
Former Church of St Nicholas  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan  
Community
Barry  
Town
Barry  
Locality
 
Easting
310443  
Northing
166940  
Street Side
 
Location
Near junction with Park Avenue, in churchyard with C18 and early C19 monuments.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
1874-76 on site of medieval church of Barry village; architect John Romilly Allen, who claimed to have followed general outline of old church. Became redundant in early C20 after building of nearby All Saints' Church 1908; now used as scouting centre.  

Exterior
Lancet style. Grey stone with bathstone dressings, slate roofs with inserted lights. Nave with double belcote, S porch, lower chancel, low stepped buttresses to angles. To W, stepped belcote with 2 bell arches; lancet window over which is shallow corbelled arch which runs up into belcote. S gabled porch with pointed doorway, low clasping buttresses; to W of porch, lancet, to R, paired window, and lancet; N wall of nave has 3 lancets. Chancel (stepped down) has two lancets to S wall, triple lancet E window, N wall has single lancet, and lean-to vestry.  

Interior
Finely dressed limestone, painted over. Converted to 2-storeys for use as Scouting centre.  

Reason for designation
Included principally for historic interest. Group value.  

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