Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tregroes Church of St Ffraid
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tregroes, Llandysul, Ceredigion, designated on 13 January 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Locality
- Tregroes
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07857, -4.32599
- Cadw reference
- 10658
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated by roadside, aligned N-S, in village centre.
History
G E Street designed a small church for Llandysul 1855, but it appears not have been built; this one is more probably designed by R J Withers in an effectively simple Gothic style. 1858
Exterior
Anglican church, in snecked rubble stone with slate roof. Even ridge line and chancel marked by slated bellcote. Long lancet windows with leaded lights and ashlar flush surrounds, 3 to each side of nave, one to chancel N; chancel S has lean-to vestry with catslide roof and smaller lean-to at left. East end has triplet of similar lancets with stepped heads. W end has rough stone segmental pointed doorway and single lancet over.
Bellcote has battered slated base, squat timber open stage with 3-arch Gothic arcading and overhanging slated spirelet, square broached to octagonal.
Interior
Plain plastered interior with small medieval font, square from octagonal base.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate to Churchyard of Church of St FfraidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding with Mill Wheel at Dyffryn LlynodIndustrialunder 1 mi
- FfosyresgobDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to S of Birdlip FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.