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
14302
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/10/1994
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
St Peter's Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdovey
Town
Locality
Aberdyfi
Easting
261551
Northing
296027
Street Side
Location
Above Sea View Terrace, approximately 50m E of junction with New Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1832, chancel added later C19.
Exterior
Tower, nave, chancel in grey brown stone, dressings (especially to chancel in bathstone, slate roofs. West tower with stepped crenellations; stepped diagonal buttresses, lancets to bell stage, small trefoil windows to lower stage (small rose window to W), clock; S tower doorway. Four bays to nave, stepped buttresses, 2-light windows with wooden cusped tracery. Lower chancel with small S window, E window in Decorated Style. Vestries/organ chamber to N.
Rear churchyard wall has arched entrance with stepped castellations over.
Interior
Entrance via tower S doorway; lobby with steps to L. Aisleless nave; rendered walls, coved and ribbed plaster ceiling. Exposed stone arch to chancel (brick walls, painted over), broad stone arch to organ chamber (N), hammer beam roof to chancel. Good glass (1872) to E window in memory of Maria Jane Pugh, of Craig-y-Don, Aberdyfi.
Reason for designation
Included as example of Pre-Victorian Gothic Revival church on prominent site. Group value
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