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
82683
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/04/2004
Date of Amendment
30/04/2004
Name of Property
Church of St. John the Evangelist
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Penllyn
Town
Cowbridge
Locality
Penllyn
Easting
297364
Northing
176092
Street Side
Location
At the south end of the village of Penllyn at the entrance to Penllyn Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built c1850 for John Homfray of Penllyn Castle to give a nearer church for Penllyn village as well as the Castle; it does not appear on the tithe map of 1839. The parish church is the Church of St. Brynach (qv) about 1.5 km to the south. The church is largely unaltered since building with only minor additions to the fittings, and the probable addition of the north organ chamber. The east window is dated 1850 and the church must date from very soon before. A part of the improvements to Penllyne Castle and its surroundings which the Homfray family instigated between 1850 with the church and 1875 with the east tower on the castle.
Exterior
Roughly coursed and squared local limestone rubble with Bath stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof, diagonal buttresses. Small single cell church with west bellcote and integral chancel, south porch and north organ chamber. Decorated style.
South wall with three windows and a steeply gabled porch between the first and second from the left. Porch with pointed arch with dripmould, gable coping and apex cross. Two-light windows in square-headed recesses, with recticulated tracery and dripmoulds over. East gable wall with 3-light window with cusped heads and quatrefoils; west wall with 2-light window but flush with the wall. North wall is blind. Coped gables with small bellcote with cross and bell on the west one and cross on the east one.
Interior
Plain interior but very unaltered. Plastered and painted walls, low pitch waggon roof. The 2-centred arch in the north wall leading to the organ chamber is probably an alteration. The furnishings are all contemporary except for the font which is dated 1682, the reredos of 1903 and the later panelling around it.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as part of a group of well designed Victorian estate buildings at the entrance to Penllyn Castle.
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