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
8830
Building Number
 
Grade
I  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/11/1950  
Date of Amendment
24/04/1998  
Name of Property
St Andrew's Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Presteigne  
Town
 
Locality
Presteigne  
Easting
331578  
Northing
264560  
Street Side
 
Location
In a spacious churchyard close to the River Lugg with Broad Street low down east and Church Street to north-west.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Predominantly C14 and Perpendicular externally but retaining significant part of an early Romanesque church in N aisle walls. Restored about 1855, in 1889-91 by J L Pearson, and in 1927 (when walls were stripped).  

Exterior
Aisled nave with SW tower over porch, 3-bay chancel with Lady Chapel to SE linked west to an expanded S aisle, polygonal rood loft stair at N junction nave and chancel. Rubble facings, ashlar dressings, slate roofs, gable-end parapets with finial plain parapets to E end and S chapel, corner buttresses (diagonal on S angles tower). Significant parts of round-arched openings (blocked), chancel arch and W door front with 5-light Perp window between buttresses and C14 lean-to aisles. 3 stage C14 and later tower with crenellated parapets, weathervane over NW caphouse, pointed bell-openings rising through stringcourse, Perp window inserted over 4-centred porch entrance (octopartite rib vault under). Chancel with 5- and 3-light Perp windows under 4-centred arches with cavetto splays, Lady Chapel similar plus Tudor window to upper gable.  

Interior
7-bay C14 nave with arcades retaining two (re-used) Romanesque piers at NW corner, clerestory windows placed over spandrels, trussed rafted roof. Alternating arched brace and tie-beam roof to S chapel. Tall chamfered arches to chancel and SE chapel. Chancel retains shallow late medieval roof with trusses on wall posts and moulded ribs, good C17 to early C19 wall monuments. Fragements of medieval stained glass in upper Lady Chapel window, small medieval carved figure of St Andrew over W window, early C16 Flemish tapestry on N wall fine Georgian chandelier (1744), carillon of 1726 etc. Other furniture including brass crucifix, candlesticks, chancel screen, pulpit etc. by Pearson.  

Reason for designation
Listed Grade I as one of the best surviving medieval churches in Powys and retaining exceptional masonry evidence for the pre-Norman fabric. Group value.  

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