Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
14/10/1994
Date of Amendment
14/10/1994
Name of Property
St Peter's Church
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Above Sea View Terrace, approximately 50m E of junction with New Street.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
1832, chancel added later C19.
Exterior
Tower, nave, chancel in grey brown stone, dressings (especially to chancel in bathstone, slate roofs. West tower with stepped crenellations; stepped diagonal buttresses, lancets to bell stage, small trefoil windows to lower stage (small rose window to W), clock; S tower doorway. Four bays to nave, stepped buttresses, 2-light windows with wooden cusped tracery. Lower chancel with small S window, E window in Decorated Style. Vestries/organ chamber to N.
Rear churchyard wall has arched entrance with stepped castellations over.
Interior
Entrance via tower S doorway; lobby with steps to L. Aisleless nave; rendered walls, coved and ribbed plaster ceiling. Exposed stone arch to chancel (brick walls, painted over), broad stone arch to organ chamber (N), hammer beam roof to chancel. Good glass (1872) to E window in memory of Maria Jane Pugh, of Craig-y-Don, Aberdyfi.
Reason for designation
Included as example of Pre-Victorian Gothic Revival church on prominent site. Group value
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