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
8151
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
18/07/1949  
Date of Amendment
09/05/1988  
Name of Property
Former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
310878  
Northing
291811  
Street Side
NE  
Location
In a small re-ordered churchyard beside the River Severn at the end of Old Church Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Ruins of the medieval parish church abandoned in favour of St Davids (1847) in 1856 and allowed to decay. The tower was restored and the walls consolidated in 1939.  

Exterior
Ruined double nave with west tower. Rubble with red sandstone dressings. Largely restored S wall. Buttresses and pointed arch added 1902. Priest's doorway with hoodmould to chancel, C14? piscina. E end survives to sill level; N wall foundations only. W tower, 3 storey lap boarded timber bell stage. Pyramidic slate roof. C14 2-light cusped windows to 2nd storey, largely restored. Single slit-like windows to 1st storey. Restored early stilted pointed arched doorway with hoodmould.  

Interior
Late C15 screen, angel roof bosses, early C18 monuments and bells moved to St Davids Church (See New Road). Church had an interesting timber arcade. Small Gothic mausoleum of Pryce family of Newtown Hall within church. 1900 white marble, red sandstone dressings. Gabled stone tile roof, gable parapets. Pointed arch to door, hood. 2-light pointed windows to flanks.  

Reason for designation
Group value. Scheduled Ancient Monument.  

Group Description
Former Parish Church of St Mary and Pryce Mausoleum, Old Church Street, Newtown  

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