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
15318
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1995
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
Church of Holy Trinity (Chapel of ease to St Michael and All Angels, Clyro)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Clyro
Town
Locality
Bettws
Easting
322785
Northing
247325
Street Side
Location
Isolated position 4km north east of Clyro, and 1.5km west of Rhydspence.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Rebuilt 1878/9 by F R Kempson architect of Hereford.
Exterior
Simple low single cell structure, rock-faced rubble blocks, slate roof, small louvred bellcote at west end. South door with pointed arch and hoodmould, lancet windows, those in the chancel smaller than the nave.
Interior
Remarkable late C14/early C15 roof structure and remains of rood loft. The roof consists of two collar beam end trusses and three arch-braced trusses alternating with two arch-braced scissor trusses with extended king posts. Original purlins and common rafters survive in the chancel. In the chancel also, moulded wall plates and two carved figures holding shields at the feet of the central truss. The feet of the scissor truss at the junction between nave and chancel are jointed into moulded wall posts. A moulded tie beam runs between the posts; in pre-reformation times this was the head beam of a rood loft. The parapet front of the loft survives as a row of open arcade work with moulded tracery cut on the west face. There appears never to have been a fence screen below the beam. Circular font on renewed cylindrical base said to have come from StáMichaels, Clyro.
Reason for designation
Graded II* for the fine late-medieval interior.
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