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
13787
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1975
Date of Amendment
30/04/1999
Name of Property
Eglwys Dewi Sant (Formerly Church of St. Andrew)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
318570
Northing
176886
Street Side
Location
In centre of crescent which is between St Andrew's Place and Dumfries Lane (Stuttgarter Strasse).
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Consecrated 1863 as St Andrew's Church. Re-consecrated as Eglwys Dewi Sant after the former Welsh church in Howard Gardens was destroyed during Second World War. Architects, John Pritchard and J P Seddon. Pritchard & Seddon's original design of 1859 was for elaborate cruciform-plan church with crossing tower and spire but was drastically curtailed, and the church completed more simply. Roof and chancel completed by Alexander Roos, architect to Bute Estate. Side Chapels 1884-86 to design of W Butterfield. The interior of the church has been re-planned with a partition across the nave, the 2 westernmost bays have been converted into a hall with meeting room above.
Exterior
Early English Gothic church. External walls faced with multi-coloured stone rubble, bands of bathstone ashlar. Slate roofs. West end window of 2-lights with lancet window to either side; gabled former porch (now window) below, flanked to each side by a single light window. Five bay nave, low passage aisles, S porch. Clerestorey windows of ashlar pierced with 2 trefoil headed lights with quatrefoils over. Two storey bay at W end of aisles. Two-light window to single bay chancel. East window of 3 lights with geometrical tracery. Lady Chapel (S) and north transept externally with paired gabled roofs, oculus and 2 windows to each gable. To E, on S side, roof sweeps down over bay with 4 round windows. Vestry to NE angle; 3-window flat-roofed block on NW side.
Interior
Walls now colourwashed. Scissor-braced roof. Nave arcade with Romanesque foliage capitals to low columns with superarches which rise to enclose clerestorey windows. Carved wood reredos with painted panels. Painted panels in Lady Chapel. Pulpit by E P Warren, 1886; stained glass includes chancel window by Lavers & Barraud (Suffer the Little Children c 1880); annunciation in S aisle c1917, Adoration of Kings (c 1923).
Reason for designation
Interesting later C19 church on important site.
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