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
22832
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2000
Date of Amendment
31/01/2000
Name of Property
Church of St Elldeyrn at Capel Llanilltern
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Pentyrch
Town
Locality
Capel Llanilltern
Easting
309510
Northing
179966
Street Side
S
Location
Set in a roughly rectangular walled churchyard sideways on to the main road, at junction with road to St Bride's-super-Ely.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Chapel of ease to St Fagans, rebuilt on an earlier site by Windsor family in 1862 to designs by the renowned architect GE Street who had previously restored St Fagans Church. Traditionally the living belongs to Dean of Llandaff. Alternative spelling Ellteyrn.
Exterior
Small and simple church comprising single-cell nave, narrower chancel, W bellcote, with Welsh slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles and cruciform chancel finial. Masonry of coursed rubble in different hues with red sandstone contrasting with blue lias and golden limestone dressings, a modest polychromy. Pointed-arched lightly moulded S doorway up 3 steps, boarded door with very decorative hinges; trefoil-headed nave windows and similar smaller to S chancel, quatrefoil W window, E window of 3 lights with trefoil tracery flanked by carved shields in rectangular frames; buttresses at SW, SE and NE nave. Attached to S wall is a plaque to Ann Thomas (d 1815) and to chancel a plaque to Elizabeth Miles (d 1764) in English. A number of table tombs roughly contemporary with the rebuilding stand near the church; outside the churchyard at W is a small parish hall.
Interior
Interior has unrendered walls and the same coloured masonry as the exterior; 2-bay nave with arch-braced roof with wind braces, 2 bay chancel roof with decorative cusping. Nave has open pew seating and contains some large hatchments to Bassett family; an important Early Christian stone with Latin inscription; a medieval font (C13) with round bowl with leaf and flower decoration and broached base. Fine wall monuments in nave and chancel especially to inhabitants of nearby Park (Parc-y-justice) including the Williams and Price families; some monuments signed E Morgan of Canton. Chancel and sanctuary have floor tiles of 3 different designs; 3 steps; marble reredos is a row of discs with cresting . E window of 1938 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.
Reason for designation
Included as a small but distinctive church designed by one of the greatest of the High Victorian architects in Britain.
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