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
18067
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/12/1996
Date of Amendment
20/12/1996
Name of Property
Church of St George
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Treorchy
Town
Treorchy
Locality
Cwmparc
Easting
295027
Northing
196066
Street Side
E
Location
Situated near the centre of Cwmparc N of Park Road, the main thoroughfare, set into the hillside with ground rising to N.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1895-6 by G E Halliday, Llandaff Diocesan architect, paid for by Mrs M G Llewellyn, widow of Griffith Llewellyn, of Baglan Hall and Pentre House, the benefactor of St Peter's Pentre, cost £4500; they also provided vicarage.
Exterior
Free Gothic style. Built of snecked rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with crucifix finials. Plan of 4 bay nave, separately gabled S aisle, flat roofed SW porch, lower 3 bay chancel with large square tower against it at SE. W front has a pair of pointed arched 2 light windows with perpendicular style tracery and hoodmoulds with simple stops separated by a gabled buttress; above is an Early English style mandorla with cusped tracery. S aisle W window is a roundel with radial tracery. SW porch has four centred arched doorway with decorative spandrels and later metal gates; above is a small moulded niche with a freestanding figure of St George under a false half gabled coping; 2 three light W windows have cusped tracery. S aisle of 3 bays has 3 three light windows with cusped heads in a square headed frame, separated by tiered buttresses, and ends in a massive SE tower of 3 storeys, a single embrasure to the parapet on each face; below a bracketed string course the belfry has wide shallow corner pilasters and cusped 3 light louvred openings in a square frame. Below pilasters merge into tiered buttresses over 2 lower storeys with pair of cusped lancets at ground floor S; entrance doorway and window to E. E end has unusual 3 light window with small paired tracery lights in a stepped frame. N frontage has single cusped lancets within square headed frame to chancel and E and W nave, two triple light windows in centre bays; nave and chancel divided by tiered buttress. Deep plinth.
Interior
Unplastered rubble with ashlar dressings. Pointed moulded arches without capitals to S arcade; pointed chancel arch is wide and flanked by 2 narrow archways. Open timber hammer beam type roof. Chancel fittings include a pink alabaster reredos by Halliday and carved by Clarke of Llandaff and an unusual corner piscina in SE window splay.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the more substantial and individual Anglican churches of the Rhondda and with an imposing tower, and as a good example of the work of Halliday.
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