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
4373
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
18/05/1999
Name of Property
Church of St Beuno
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pistyll
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Carnguwch
Easting
237414
Northing
341822
Street Side
Location
The church is situated on top of an isolated hill, on the S side of Mynydd Garnguwch, and is reached by footpath from Llwyndyrys.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The church appears to be on an early site, set within a roughly trapezoid shaped graveyard, furnished with many slate monuments dating from 1821 and probably earlier. The building appears to be originally late medieval and cruciform, from which period perhaps the lower part of the walls and the E window survive. It is recorded as having been rebuilt in 1882 by Henry Kennedy. Fitting out took place in the early C19, the fittings carried over to the rebuilt building and augmented in 1882.
Exterior
Built of rubble stonework with galletted joints. Irregular sized slate roof and superimposed gable copings and kneelers. A single vessel building with tall gabled W tower. On the N side a temporary boarded door and later C19 2-light timber windows holding diamond pattern glazing. The E window, said to be reset, is of 3 lights, C15 Perpendicular panel style tracery, within ogee moulded jambs, all below a hoodmould. The tower has similar coped gables and slit openings at the bell stage. A wide low wall arch on the S side, now infilled, probably covered a wall tomb.
Interior
Roof of 4 bays, later C19 shouldered king-post trusses with open rafters and fully torched soffit. Walls plastered, with a stencilled dado. Quarry tiled floor with boarding under the pews. Fittings include a raised panelled pulpit of probably early C19, with integrated reader's desk below all approached by a side stair. C19 altar of 3 bays and altar rail. Plain pews. The font, at the W end is octagonal, of limestone. Also, an unfixed box pulpit with arcaded sides.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of the simple isolated country church on a typical early site, and one retaining evidence of its late medieval construction and detail.
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