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
8200
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/1949
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Parish Church of St Llwchaiarn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Town
Newtown
Locality
LLanllwchaiarn
Easting
312379
Northing
292528
Street Side
Location
In a large triangular churchyard on the roadside.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1816, Georgian, W tower and nave of English garden wall bond brick on site of earlier stone church. Chancel, vestry and Gothic restyling of 1864 by R J Withers. Aisle windows of 1869.
Exterior
4 bay nave, rusticated brick quoins. Gently pitched slate roof. Deep boarded eaves over moulded cornice (returned to W end). Plain bargeboards. 2 light Decorated Gothic tracery window, hoodmoulds. Rectangular, 3 stage W tower. Freestone obelisk finials on corniced parapet. Louvred round arched openings to bellstage, stone sills. Round windows to first stage, blocked to form sundial to s. Freestone band. Stone panel dated 1815 set over round arched W door; plain fanlight, panelled double doors.
Gothic chancel with S vestry. Flemish bond brick. Steeply pitched slate roofs. Cross finials, raking gable parapets on kneelers. 3 light decorated flowing tracery E window, hoodmould. Set back angle buttresses. 2 light window to vestry, diagonal buttresses.
Interior
Nave roof of king post v-strut tie beam trusses; exposed in 1864 and cusped brackets added. Gallery to W end. Re-used C18? panelling to front. Octagonal timber posts flank centre aisle; plaster cornice to passage. 2 order chancel arch on half columns. Painted scroll overthrow. Reredos and Re-used panelling from Welshpool Church erected in 1892.
Glass - E window and N chancel by N O'Connor 1868, S side Nave, Morris and Co c1870, H G Hiller c1920; N side nave C A Gibbs 1874.
Monument to Sarah Baxter 1774, pink marble cartouche with drapery, style of Nelson of Shrewsbury.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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