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
4382
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
02/03/1998
Name of Property
Church of St Cwyfan
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Tudweiliog
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Tudweiliog
Easting
223836
Northing
336778
Street Side
Location
Situated in the centre of Tudweiliog village some 50m SE of the post office.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
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.
Exterior
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.
Interior
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.
Reason for designation
A consistently designed small work by one of the major Victorian architects, complete with original fittings.
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