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
15637
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/06/1967
Date of Amendment
06/09/2002
Name of Property
Church of St David
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanycrwys
Town
Locality
Llanycrwys
Easting
264516
Northing
245315
Street Side
Location
In a walled churchyard on the E side of a minor road approximately 1.1km NE of Ffaldybrenin and 0.7km NW of Farmers.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
A medieval church restored in the mid C19 and restored again in 1891-2 by Ewan Christian, architect of London, at which date most of the extant furnishings were installed. Windows are all C19. The porch was added c1900.
Exterior
A simple Early-English style church comprising nave and chancel under a single roof, W porch and N vestry. Of rubble stone, and slate roof behind coped gable to the W end, with overhanging eaves and W bellcote. The S wall is battered, while the remaining walls are battered only at the base. The S wall has a central 2-light geometrical window, a single-light window to the L and small cusped light to the chancel on the R. The E window, of 1891-2, comprises 3 stepped lights. The N vestry, under an outshut roof with tall octagonal stone stack to the E side, has a 2-light square-headed W window. On the E side of the vestry is a lean-to coal shed beneath a single chancel light with shallow trefoil head. Otherwise the N wall has only a single small square-headed light towards the E end. The porch is of snecked stone with timber-framing to the gable. The W door has a single ovolo moulding, hood mould, and double boarded doors. Over the porch is a single lancet. The gabled bellcote has a round-headed opening for a single bell.
Interior
Nave and chancel have a continuous roof of closely-spaced rafters with collars and diagonal struts. A C19 rood beam marks the separation of nave from chancel. In the nave N wall is a doorway to the vestry and a doorway at higher level to its R, both medieval and giving access via stairs to the medieval rood loft.
The square font bowl is medieval and retains its lead lining, but stands on a C20 stone pedestal and base. Plain pews were installed in 1891, as was the polygonal pulpit with blind panels below open cusped ogee arches. The wooden communion rail is on twisted brass balusters.
Reason for designation
Listed as a church with substantial medieval fabric and retaining definite character following C19 restorations.
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