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
7410
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1951
Date of Amendment
01/02/1988
Name of Property
St Mary's Parish Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Hay
Town
Locality
Easting
322579
Northing
242142
Street Side
Location
On the W edge of the town, beside the Norman motte.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Early C12 origins; given to Brecon Priory. W tower added in C15; disused and ruined ca. 1700. Rebuilt by Edward Haycock the elder in 1833/4; chancel enlarged in 1866, possibly by T. Nicholson architect of Hereford.
Exterior
Late Georgian Gothic 6-bay aisless nave with attached 3-stage tower and 1-bay lower chancel with apsidal east end and attached S vestry and N organ chamber. Coursed rubble masonry to nave; rubble tower, with crenellated parapet over corbel table, and snecked rubble chancel and east end. Slate roof and wide corbelled eaves; freestone dressings including gable parapets and buttresses; apex finial to nave gable end and chevron ornamented eaves bands at E end, swept out to apse which has battered base. Lancet openings to tower, paired to top stage of N and S sides and to bottom of W side; later lean-to on N side with pointed entrance. Tall pointed nave windows with hood moulds; squared recess containing eroded coat of arms over porch with rounded jambs and boarded doors. Paired ogee windows to vestry and organ chamber, round arched doorways to the former and circular windows with dog-tooth surrounds in E walls; similar hood moulds with carved head stops to apse lancets. Recessed tablet on N side to members of Wellington family (1760's) and beside it an early Georgian monument Richard Wellington (d. 1732).
The Churchyard retains a number of fine stone early C19 memorials and some C18 tombstones, including one with pedestal and urn to John Jones (1827), and several Roman sarophagi type memorials.
Interior
The interior retains gallery, with Gothic timber front , to N and W sides carried on tall cast-iron columns and reached by two staircases with moulded tread ends; choir vestry under tower. Bold tripartite screen, with cylindrical piers, dog-tooth ornament and foliage capitals, opens into chancel which has boarded roof with trefoil cusping to gable ends; ribbed boarded apse roof carried on foliage carved stone corbels. Timber reredos with canopied niches; Italianated octagonal alabaster pulpit, dated 1865, (gift of Francis Trumper) on free standing columns and with carved heads. One stained glass window by Arthur dix, London 1906. Much damaged medieval recumbent effigy at W end. The Church bell is dated 1740 (by Evans Foundry, Chepstow).
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export