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
3986
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1988
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
St Marys Parish Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
258341
Northing
372466
Street Side
Location
Between Garth Road and Maes-y-Dref, set in a rectangular landscaped churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1864, by H P Horner, architect of Liverpool. Cost £4,650 partly donated by the future Lord Penrhyn
Exterior
Decorated Gothic. 6-bay aisled nave with SW porch; lower 2-bay chancel with SW 4-stage tower and octagonal spire. Rubble with freestone spire and dressings including crucifix finials, plinth bands, quoins and stepped and diagonal buttresses (gabled to W and E ends); slate roofs and boarded doors.
Pointed trefoil clerestory windows; 3 light aisle windows with alternatively varied cusped tracery, those to either side of porch have blind panels below, also to aisle W end windows. Caernarfon arch doorway with pointed trefoil tympanum and carved spandrels under rere arch; parallel flight of stone steps. Small lucarnes to spire; gabled bell stage with 2-light openings; punched trefoils and paired lancets below. 4-light E-window with stopped label and curved sided triangle gable window above. Lean-to vestry on N side with Y-tracery window and stone chimney. N entrance directly opposite S porch; gabled arch with geometrical tracery. 5-light W window with label and stellar pattern tracery; similarly shaped gable window above.
Interior
Interior has 6-bay nave; 2-order chamfered arcade and thin octagonal piers without capitals.
Scissors truss nave rood, boarded to chancel; broad aisles. Gothic furnishings and good stained glass window to S side.
Reason for designation
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