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
3571
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Eglwys y Santes Fair (Parish Church of St Mary)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Llanfairfechan
Easting
268287
Northing
374565
Street Side
W
Location
Impressively sited in large open churchyard high above village centre.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Consecrated October 11 1849. Architect, H Kennedy (1814-98), of Bangor, North aisle added 1885 by Mrs Fanny North in memory of late husband, Thomas North. Some monuments and stoup transferred from old church.
Compact cruciform plan with added N aisle in the angle between nave and N transept. Belcote on W gable. Slate roof, walls in grey rubble with pale limestone dressings. In ‘Middle Pointed’ early Victorian version of C14 style; N aisle in style of circa 1300.
Exterior
Small porch with steeply pitched gable, arched wooden doorframe and picturesque carved bargeboarding. To R, small 2-light nave window. At W end, nave has single light window, above this, belcot supported on corbelled triple-arches. Aisle W window 4-light with reticulated tracery, hoodmould with head stops; small window in apex of gable.
In angle between nave and N transept, added aisle in snecked dark stone. Three bays of 2-light windows in geometrical style of circa 1300. Stepped buttresses. North transept, diagonal buttresses, 2-light window with small window in gable. Organ chamber/vestry with door in angle between transept and chancel; 2 trefoil single light windows face E, cruciform window in gable apex. Chancel E window of 3-lights with cinquefoil lights and star-shaped tracery over. Hood mould with head stops. Single-light windows to N and S. Chapel in SE angle between chancel and transept has 2-light windows facing E and S, cruciform windows in apexes of gables. Transept with diagonal buttresses, 2-light window with small cruciform window in gable apex.
Interior
Three bay nave with added N aisle. Arcade supported on octagonal shafts. Aisle roof, common rafter type with collars. Interesting roofs to nave transepts and chancel of principal rafter type with arch-braces supporting king posts. Trusses supported on plain stone corbels except in chancel where angels support instruments of Christ’s Passion. Traceried wooden war memorial chancel screen with painted decoration. Screen and chancel arrangement by H L North, architect, of Llanfairfechan, circa 1925. Chapel to R of chancel; to L organ chamber with traceried screen.
Reason for designation
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