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
8143
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/05/1988
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988
Name of Property
Parish Church of St David including Wall Fronting New Road
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Town
Locality
Easting
310950
Northing
291357
Street Side
SE
Location
In a spacious churchyard in a prominent position facing New Church Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1843-47 Thomas Penson, County Surveyor at a cost of £4,600. Renovation of 1874 by David Walker of Liverpool at £3,000; galleries removed, chancel with organ chamber and vestry built of stock brick.
Exterior
Lancet style with dog-tooth ornament to arches. Tall aisled nave with W tower, porch on N and small apse to E end. Buff brick fabric. Galleried interior. Aisles of 6 bays. 3rd from W on N occupied by 2 storey gabled porch with clasping buttresses; square pinacles. Hoodmould to pointed arch below twin lancets. Gables to stepped buttress, paired tall lancet windows, corbelled eaves, slate roofs. Plain pinacles on clasping buttresses to corners. Single lancets to W aisle windows, blocked to E. Clearstorey similar with tripartite lancets. 5 stage saddleback tower, pinnacles rising from clasping buttresses. Vents to apecis over paired lancets on bell stage. Unused clock openings below. Single lancets to 3rd stage, paired to 2nd stage with 2 storey polygonal vice to S. Door on N, shallow twin lancets to W. Peal of 6 bells from old church. Steeper roof to chancel, gable parapets; polygonal pinacles on stepped angle buttresses. Corbelled eaves; pointed shouldered arches to flank windows, continuous hoods, sill bands. 5 light Geometric traceried E window. Organ chamber at right angles to N, angle buttresses, twin lancets. Single storey vestry to S; porch, lancets.
Churchyard wall to New Road contemporary with 1847 building. Gate and corner piers match pinnacles. Iron gates later?.
Interior
Polygonal arcade piers rise to pointed, decoratively moulded arches. Moulded capitals, masks to springing points and tops. String course to clerestorey hoodmoulds to windows. Inner doors of N porch blocked by re-sited Baroque wall monument of 1739 to wives of Sir John Pryce of Newtown Hall. Columns, heraldic crest, flying putti. Cusping to King post and tie beam trusses. N aisle chapel by H L North of Bangor 1938. Parclose screen and alter canopy made up of very fine C15 vine scroll screen from St Mary's. Cusped sedilia to chancel, priest's door; nookshafts. Pointed arch to organ chamber, nookshafts. Pulpit with trefoil arcade by Walker? C13 font, C18 candelabra, some cartouches and painting by John Dyer C1730; all from St Mary's. Good glass to E window, 1902, depicting Victoria.
Reason for designation
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