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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
143
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/06/1950
Date of Amendment
09/09/1994
Name of Property
Church of St Trillo
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llandrillo-yn-Rhos / Rhos-on-Sea
Town
Locality
Rhos on Sea
Easting
283212
Northing
380639
Street Side
Location
Prominently sited surmounting a mound, in a large grave-yard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The earliest visible remains relate to a C13 church (see the N wall of the present N aisle), which was extended in the early C16, forming a double-naved church. A restoration was carried out in 1857 by H Kennedy, and the church was again restored in 1898.
Exterior
Rough rubble with freestone dressings, probably at one time lime-washed to serve as a navigational landmark, and now partly roughcast rendered. Slate roofs. West tower, nave and N aisle (originally both naves). West tower, said to have been built in 1552, and adapted to serve as a watch tower in c1600. Undivided, battered tower with embattled parapet. Chamfered arched paired bellchamber lights. Nave has panel traceried W window of 3 lights, the work if Kennedy. Roughcast S porch with coped gable and plain pointed archway. 3-light Perpendicular windows in S wall, and blocked plain chamfered priest’s doorway towards the E. Big 5-light Perpendicular E window in hollow chamfered surround. E window of N aisle is styled like the W nave window and is also a C19 restoration. Gabled vestry and organ chamber (not so built) project from N wall of nave, and in this wall the blocked remains of an Early English arcade of 2 bays are visible.
Interior
Nave arcade of 4 bays, octagonal columns carrying shallow deeply moulded 4-centred arches. Carved angels carrying shields at the springing of each arch. Undifferentiated sanctuary occupies easternmost bay. C16 roof, with heavy, roughly shaped arched braced collar trusses, and chunky wind-braces. N wall of aisle reveals the chamfered square bases of 2 pointed arches of the blocked arcade. Rough voussoir arched doorway leads to W vestry. Furnishings: C13 font: bulbous octagonal basin with ribs at angles and a nailhead frieze. C19 benches. Reredos was erected c1919 as a War Memorial: scalloped shallow arched panels line the sanctuary and form the reredos, where they are filled with high reliefs representing the agony in the garden, the crucifixion, and the angel at the tomb. Pulpit of 1919: blind Perpendicular panels and vine scroll frieze. Stained glass: nave E window dated 1873 - by Heaton Butler and Bayne. E window of N aisle is possibly also by Heaton Butler and Bayne. S windows in nave, with commemoration dates of 1869 and 1894 are unattributed, although stylistically the window of 1869 is very similar to the main E window. The W window is dated 1902, and is by Curtis, Ward and Hughes.
Reason for designation
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