13395

 

II  

Designated  

30/05/1975  

30/03/1995  

Former Church of St Nicholas  

 

Vale of Glamorgan  

Barry  

Barry  

 

310443  

166940  

 

Near junction with Park Avenue, in churchyard with C18 and early C19 monuments.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

1874-76 on site of medieval church of Barry village; architect John Romilly Allen, who claimed to have followed general outline of old church. Became redundant in early C20 after building of nearby All Saints' Church 1908; now used as scouting centre.  

Lancet style. Grey stone with bathstone dressings, slate roofs with inserted lights. Nave with double belcote, S porch, lower chancel, low stepped buttresses to angles. To W, stepped belcote with 2 bell arches; lancet window over which is shallow corbelled arch which runs up into belcote. S gabled porch with pointed doorway, low clasping buttresses; to W of porch, lancet, to R, paired window, and lancet; N wall of nave has 3 lancets. Chancel (stepped down) has two lancets to S wall, triple lancet E window, N wall has single lancet, and lean-to vestry.  

Finely dressed limestone, painted over. Converted to 2-storeys for use as Scouting centre.  

Included principally for historic interest. Group value.