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
3642
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/12/1989
Date of Amendment
28/12/1995
Name of Property
Llangelynin New Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Henryd
Town
Locality
Llangelynin
Easting
277109
Northing
373546
Street Side
Location
Located on the E side of a lane about 1km SW of the B5106 on the way to Rowen; situated in a walled churchyard surrounded by mature trees, with the W tower sited downhill towards the Afon Gyffin.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dated 1840 (internal tablet over W door), though this refers to a remodelling of an earlier, probably late Georgian church; the inscription reads: `This church was rebuilt and enlarged by Evan Lloyd, Rector, in 1840, and in 1903 it was restored and rearranged by George Barker'. The 1840 work was by Thomas Jones, architect of Chester; the 1903 restoration was to designs by H.L North, architect of Llanfairfechan.
Exterior
Simple lancet style Gothic. Rubble construction with dressed quoins, surrounds and string-courses; shallow-pitched slate roof, feathered out slightly at the eaves. Squat, three storey W tower turning octagonal with stepped, triangular facets over simple first-floor lancets with linked cornice and hoodmoulds. Zigzag hoodmoulds to bellstorey with plain bell-openings and blank diagonals; cornice below crenellated parapet. Stepped, pointed opening in red brick to boarded W door with strap hinges.
5-bay continuous nave and chancel with symmetrical sides. These have small, centrally-placed, gabled vestries flanked by 2 large chamfered lancets on each side. 3 lancets to E end, the string-course stepped-up at this point.
The churchyard has slate headstones and tablet tombs, some railed, mostly dating from the C19. One especially fine railed slate-carved obelisk with finial to Ann Owen (d.1848) and Richard Owen (d.1870).
Interior
Very simple interior with shallow timber roof trusses, alternately with side braced collars and metal tie-rods; tapered king posts. Wide round arch from W porch; corbelled squinches in side tower over first-floor windows. Original wooden furnishings plus a Georgian polished marble font with baluster shaft (presumably from the old church). 2 stained glass windows by Jones and Willis, of London, Birmingham and Liverpool.
Reason for designation
A good lancet-style church by T. Jones with unusual W tower.
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