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
8046
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/1949
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988
Name of Property
All Saint's Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Town
Locality
Penygloddfa
Easting
310815
Northing
292004
Street Side
NW
Location
On the street line opposite the junction with Llanllwchaiarn Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1888-90 by Aston Webb, architect of London for Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones costing £4,000.
Exterior
Lancet style. 4 bay nave with S aisle, chancel with organ chamber to N and SE angle tower. Snecked limestone masonry with grimshall freestone dressings. Steep gabled slate roof, sweeping out over aisle on S. Gable parapets, Celtic cross finial to E.
3 bay aisle stops short of W end. 2 gabled dormers and porch. Tripartite stepped lancets, continuous hoodmould, sill band; stepped buttress to center. Open timber porch on stone base, steps to sides. Round arched doorway. Ornate straps to doors. Cusped sexfoil to W aisle window, stepped buttresses. Tall tripartite stepped cusped lancets W end, sill band; stepped buttresses. Modern extension around NW corner, cut doorway. 3 tripartite stepped lancets to nave on N. Sexfoil window to organ chamber in N transept. 2 stage square tower over vestry in S transept, diagonal buttress; polygonal vice to SE corner. Octagonal bell stage, cusped lancets to louvres, quatrefoils over raking buttresses to corners continuous hoodmould. Chimney on N side. 3 narrow lancets to vice top. Short spire with gabled dormer louvers. Door to S side, pair cusped windows to E. 5 stepped lancets under broad arch to E end sill band returned to sides, stepped buttresses.
Interior
Squat, nave arcade columns rising to broad pointed arches. Arch braced hammer beam roof with iron tension bars. Contemporary stone pulpit and font. Broad 2 order chancel arch, truncated half colonetts on corbels, boarded wagon roof. Internal sill band of E window steps down to sides.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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