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
5064
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/02/1952
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Parish Church of St Mary
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272745
Northing
317841
Street Side
Location
Located in a spacious churchyard between Queen's Square and Marian Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
l7l6. Classical style. Aisled nave with remodelled medieval W tower. Romanesque apsidal chancel and restoration of l864.
Exterior
4 stage W tower, rubble masonry, clasping corner buttresses. Recessed crenellated parapet, string course; waterspouts to N and S. Round arched openings to bell stage, capped keystones, arch rings rest on moulded impost blocks, plain pilasters. Cross frame, louvres below transom. Clock faces to 2nd floor, string course. Round arched windows to lst floor N and S, detail as bell stage, Gothic glazing bars. Slit-like vice lights to right on N. Bolection moulded string course over plinth. Round arched doorway to S, long stone voussoirs. 5 bay aisled nave. Long, narrow, squared rubble, interlocking projecting quoins. Steeply pitched slate roof with broad cambered leaded apex. Cavetto eaves cornice. Bolection string course, rubble plinth. Doorcases to W end of N and S aisle elevations. Round arch, capped keystone, arch ring (missing to S) resting on moulded impost blocks, plain pilasters rise through plinth from moulded bases. Late Cl9 double doors. l7l6 architrave on ovolo brackets over S door frames Cl9 slate tablet with Welsh inscription commemorating renovation of l864, verse, and an englyn. Tall round arched nave windows; capped keystones, arch rings rest on moulded impost blocks, alternate reveal quoins project to form Gibbs like pilasters; ovolo moulded sills. Single, narrow round arched windows to W end of aisles, stone voussoirs.
Vestry of l828 set into NW angle with tower. Masonry as nave, hipped slate roof, cavetto eaves cornice, clasping pilasters, bolection string course, rubble plinth. Cross windows to N and S, detail as those on tower.
Apsidal chancel of l864. Masonry as nave, bolection string course. Flat leaded apex to slate roof. 3 freestone Romanesque windows. Smaller window to centre stepped up, nookshafts to those flanking.
Interior
Depressed timber barrel vault across whole width of interior, modillion cornice. Moulded collars to octagonal timber arcade piers, shafts round over collars with moulded square capitals. Early Cl9 inner porches. Good mid Cl4 recumbent effigy of Meuric ap Ynyr Fychan of Nannau, resited below easternmost window of N aisle. Wall monument of l726 to JaneáWynn to N aisle, E wall, segmental pediment, urns. Group of three Cl8 wall monuments of Nanney family to S aisle, mid Cl8 with pedimented architraves flanking l708 slate tablet with full arms. Numerous other Cl9 monuments. Victorian stained glass to aisle and chancel, chiefly cl860. Arched recess to W wall. Font contemporary with l864 restoration, but small alabaster font bowl of l651 survives. Roll moulded round chancel arch on corbels. Nookshafts to chancel windows, half domed ceiling. Spiral vice to tower; l809 peal of 8 bells.
Reason for designation
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