Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
1372
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/03/1995
Date of Amendment
09/03/1995
Name of Property
Church of St David
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Painscastle
Town
Locality
Llandewi Fach
Easting
314620
Northing
245424
Street Side
Location
Isolated position 3.2 kilometres south west of Painscastle, reached along pathway from Cwm.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Rebuilding on ancient site by Pritchard and Seddon 1857-1860. Small nave, chancel, south porch, louvred bellcote with pyramid roof. Rubble stone, clasping diagonal set buttresses, artificial slate roof. South wall of nave has unusual two-light windows in C14 bar tracery style with cusped heads and glazed lunette.
Very small churchyard with numerous tombstones and yew trees. Inscribed grave slab of 1691 by south east corner of porch.
Interior
Fireplace in north wall, flagstone floor, tall pointed chancel arch, boarded ceiling, re-used dado panelling, turned communion rails dated 1712, octagonal font, two simple C17 wood benches with scribed mouldings.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed small country church by an eminent firm of Victorian architects; outstanding hillside setting.
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