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
4543
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1989
Date of Amendment
28/07/1989
Name of Property
Parish Church of St. Peter
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pwllheli
Town
Locality
Llieniau
Easting
237395
Northing
335274
Street Side
Location
Above the road and set in a small churchyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1886-7 by J Oldrid Scott, architect of London, on the site of an earlier church by William Thomas (County Surveyor) built in 1832-4. The new church was consecrated on 18 October 1887; cost ca £5000. At this point plans for a west tower were finally abandoned.
Exterior
Decorated Gothic style. Nave, chancel and full height N and S aisles; vestry and SW porch. Local snecked rubble with yellow rubble banding and pink Runcorn freestone dressings; purple slate roofs with green slate patterned banding and tiled cresting. Gable parapets and stepped buttresses; plinth and cill band. E end has chequerboard patterned gabled and 5-light window. Set back to either side are 4-bay aisles; 4-light windows to S aisle and alternating 2 and 4-light windows to N. Priests door in chequerboard gabled vestry on S side with early Decorated 2-light window. Asymmetrically gabled south porch with 3 order arch and dying mouldings over rounded jambs. 2 order arched doorway with foliage stops to label; smaller similar doorway to S aisle. W end has Y-tracery derived windows and corbelled out bellcote with trefoil headed opening; S aisle also has chequerboarded gable.
Interior
Spacious interior with open timber roofs, rendered walls and tone arcades, 5-bay to N and 6-bay to S; octagonal piers with capitals, more elaborately moulded to N. Arched braced trusses to central nave with windbraces and stone springers; stop chamfered tie beams and octagonal king posts to N aisle roof.
Piscina and sedilia to chancel and panelled oak reredos with Flamboyant tracery carving to central triptych containing mosaic pictures. Gothic panelled pulpit and elaborate circular font dated 1889 at W end; plain octagonal font to N aisle. Baptism of Christ picture by Harvey Thomas (1979).
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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