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
13780
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Church of St. John the Baptist
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Llandaff
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Radyr
Easting
313928
Northing
179049
Street Side
Location
In the north-western corner of Llandaff Community where it abuts Radyr Community.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Medieval Church, probably C14 but restored and exterior considerably altered in c1865 probably by John Prichard. The nave and chancel are probably medieval in origin, with possibly some surviving windows; the porch and vestry are wholly late C19. One of the few churches in Cardiff with surviving medieval fabric.
Exterior
The church is built of polychromatic random rubble, mostly a refacing or rebuilding of the medieval walls by Prichard, Welsh slate roof with stone bell-cote with trefoiled openings to west gable. Nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry. The nave has two windows on the south wall, a single light trefoil headed one to the left of the porch and a 2-light one to the right. These are repeated on the north wall and there is a single light one on the west gable. The porch has a pointed arch, coped gable and gable cross. The chancel Perpendicular style east window has 3-lights; south chancel wall with two windows, a 2-light one to the left and a single light one to the right, both plate tracery with trefoil heads. North chancel wall covered by vestry which has a 2-light plain window and a doorway, single light window in east return. Coped gables with crosses, tall cylindrical vestry chimney on north slope of nave gable.
Interior
Walls plastered and painted throughout, c2000. The interior is of a much more medieval character than the exterior, particularly the window arches and the possibly late C14 chancel arch with its battered sides. Six bay roof to the nave, arch braced tie-beam with moulded main beams; four bay C19 waggon roof in the chancel. Medieval limestone font. The pews are Victorian, the pulpit mid C20. The chancel window is dated 1915 and may have replaced a triple lancet. Some good memorials, especially two in the chancel, one signed E Morgan, Canton and the other H Woodcott, Bristol.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare surviving medieval church in Cardiff with an interesting C19 restoration by John Prichard.
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