4382

 

II  

Designated  

19/10/1971  

02/03/1998  

Church of St Cwyfan  

 

Gwynedd  

Tudweiliog  

Pwllheli  

Tudweiliog  

223836  

336778  

 

Situated in the centre of Tudweiliog village some 50m SE of the post office.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Anglican parish church of 1849-50 by George Gilbert Scott of London, one of the earlier correct Gothic Revival churches of the region. The church was built for Charles Wynne of Cefn Amwlch and cost £900. It replaces a medieval church, of which 2 carved corbels and the font are at Cefn Amwlch.  

Parish church, granite rubble stone with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, coped shouldered gables and W bellcote. Nave, chancel, N vestry and S porch. Decorated Gothic style. Three-bay nave, two-bay chancel with two-step buttresses each bay, clasping at E angles, diagonal at W end. Raised ashlar plinth. Windows are 2-light with quatrefoil over, those in chancel with hoodmoulds, W end has a pair of similar windows and E end has big 3-light window with quatrefoil and trefoils in heads of the lights and hoodmould over. W end ashlar bellcote has 2 bells in cusped pointed openings, carved incised cross above. Porch has pointed arch, pointed door within. N vestry has truncated N stack, E shouldered-headed doorway and N 3-light window, cusped under segmental pointed hoodmould.  

Plastered whitewashed walls with exposed ashlar dressings. Deep arch-braced collar trusses to nave with wishbone struts over collars. Elaborated in chancel with straight-braced collar rafters. Moulded ashlar pointed chancel arch on moulded corbels. Moulded chancel N low segmental pointed arch to Vestry, blocked by organ. Hoodmould to E window. Chancel floor paved in black and white. Timber fittings by Scott include pitch pine pews, stalls, reading-desk, rails, and panelled pulpit. Ashlar font by Scott, octagonal with inset carved panels and quatrefoil shaft. Later C19 organ in simple Gothic case. Memorials: Brass plaque to Laura Wynne d1851, neo Jacobean plaque to Major J S Wynne Finch d1906. Stained glass: chancel E window, 3-light of Resurrection by Clayton & Bell 1906, to C A Wynne Finch of Voelas and Cefn Amwlch. Three chancel side 2-light windows of the same date by same firm. In the vestry, Seating-plan by G G Scott.  

A consistently designed small work by one of the major Victorian architects, complete with original fittings.