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
8800
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/04/1972
Date of Amendment
24/08/2004
Name of Property
Church of St David
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Beguildy
Town
Locality
Heyop
Easting
323979
Northing
274558
Street Side
Location
Within a churchyard on the N side of a minor road between Knucklas and Llangunllo, approximately 1.3km WNW of Knucklas village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
A medieval church rebuilt 1880-2 by John Loughborough Pearson, architect of London. The contractor was Williams of Knighton. Only the tower retains medieval masonry. The shingled spire was renewed in 1967.
Exterior
A simple Tudor-Gothic style church comprising nave and chancel under a single roof, S porch, and W tower with spire. Walls are of snecked stone with lighter freestone dressings, the roof is tiled. The S porch has an open timber-framed gable with cusped trefoils, on a shouldered lintel. Inside it has stone benches and S doorway with continuous keeled, roll-moulded surround, and boarded door with strap hinges.
Windows are square-headed with cusped, ogee-headed lights, and there is a continuous sill band. The nave has a 3-light and a 4-light window. A buttress is between nave and chancel. The chancel has a 4-light S window, and a 3-light E window with Y-tracery and hood mould. On the N side is a gabled vestry, which has a boarded E door with strap hinges, and 3 stepped, cusped lights to the N under a hood mould. An organ chamber under an outshut roof is on its R side, next to which is a lean-to boiler room. The nave has 4-light and 3-light N windows, with buttress between.
The 2-stage W tower is rubble stone. It has a 2-light W window with Decorated tracery and hood mould. Two-light belfry windows have geometrical tracery and louvres, beneath a shingled broached spire.
Interior
Nave and chancel have a 7-bay arched-brace roof, with cusping above the collar beam to form trefoils and quatrefoils, probably reproducing the late-medieval roof. The plain round-headed tower arch is plastered. N and S windows have moulded wooden lintels beneath the wall plate. The chancel is more richly treated, with decorative tiles, and a sill band carried over a segmental-headed sedillum and pointed piscina, and over a pointed N vestry door which has studs and strap hinges. A plastered pointed arch opens to the organ recess. The rood screen from the old church was restored and reinstated. It has a wide doorway with triangular head, flanked on each side by 5 lights with restored tracery, and a 4-panelled dado. Above is a moulded cornice.
The plain octagonal font is C19. Plain pews have panelled ends. The polygonal wooden pulpit is on a freestone base. The communion rail is cast and wrought iron. In the nave S wall is wooden memorial plaque with rounded top, to John Handson (d 1796) and family.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved small Gothic revival church by J.L. Pearson of London.
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