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
13747
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
24/05/2002
Name of Property
Church of St Catherine (Church of England in Wales)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Pontcanna
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Canton
Easting
316807
Northing
176951
Street Side
E
Location
In the centre of the Community about 400m north-east of Canton Cross.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
First built 1883-6, architect, J Prichard. He did only the first three bays of the nave; Kempson and Fowler added the chancel with the south chapel and north vestry in 1892-3 (foundation stone 1892) and G E Halliday added the two bays of the west end in 1897.
Exterior
The church is faced in thin courses of dark brown Pontypridd stone rubble with Bath stone ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs. Five-bay nave; chancel; side aisles and nave all with separate gabled roofs; Lady Chapel at east end of south aisle. Plain Gothic style with Decorated tracery, the three builds are not readily identifiable. North-east end of church with chancel projecting forward beyond vestry and Lady Chapel; 3-light chancel window; Lady Chapel window of 2-lights, as are the windows in the chancel returns. Side aisle windows of 2-lights with buttresses between and with 3-light windows at south-west end of aisles. South-west end of nave with 5-light window above paired central doorways with pointed heads; gabled porch in centre of south aisle; 2-centred doorway in centre of north aisle.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection at resurvey as the living was vacant. The listing description (May 1975) reports that the walls are faced with yellow brick with red and black lacing courses etc. The nave arcade is timber supported on slender cruciform columns of stone and the roofs are of timber. The Glamorgan volume of The Buildings of Wales confirms this and reports a variety of C20 glass including some by Comper.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as the parish church, which was built in three phases and designed by three noteworthy local architects.
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