Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Ffraid aka St Bride, Llansantffraid
St. Bride's Minor, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1963
- Locality
- Sarn
- Community
- St. Bride's Minor
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53946, -3.59204
- Cadw reference
- 11224
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On sloping ground above Afon Ogwr, W of the village of Sarn and very near the W community boundary and the main road between Bridgend and Maesteg.
History
Probably C14/15 origin. Heavily restored by G E Halliday 1896 who added N aisle. Sundial in porch dated 1762.
Exterior
A small low church of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and snecked dressed stone to N aisle; main roof of machine tiles, stone tiles to porch, apex cruciform finials. Plan of nave with W bellcote, long N aisle, S porch, lower narrower chancel. Windows are mostly renewed with 2 trefoil-headed lights and Geometric tracery and hoodmoulds. S porch has wide ashlar coping with kneelers, sundial above plain round arched S doorway; porch interior has stone seats and flags; one moulded arch braced truss, ridge beam, trenched purlin and vertically panelled S door. Nave has windows either side of porch and wide shallow buttress at SE corner. Chancel has single light S window and an unrestored window of 2 cusped lights in a square headed frame with wide chamfered mullion; hollow chamfered pointed arched priest's door with vertically panelled door; 2 light E window. N aisle has unusually an E pointed arched entrance with voussoirs and hoodmould; battered stepped buttress divides nave and chancel; windows with narrow lights. W window of 2 lights. Stands in a large churchyard, the level of which has been lowered in places as seen by the mounds on which the older yews stand; entrance at W has an iron archway and double gates.
Interior
Nave has C19 N arcade of 3 bays with moulded pointed arches; windows have very wide embrasures; arch-braced roof with low ridge beam and heavy trenched purlins. C19 barrel roof to nave with moulded principal ribs; font is medieval, a plain bowl with single roll mould on a low stem. Chancel arch is simple and pointed, two orders dying into the walls. To right a medieval quatrefoil headed shallow niche with fragments of medieval moulded stone made into an altar below; to left a group of 2 simple C17-18 wall monuments; similar black painted local monument to NW. Chancel has C19 roof, E window stained glass of 1899, C18 wall monument NE.
Reason for designation
Included as a much restored medieval parish church.
Nearby in the register
- Monument to Morgan Morgan in Llansantffraid churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Williams monument and railings in Llansantffraid churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Churchyard cross socket in Llansantffraid churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bowen/Roberts Monuments in Llansantfrraid churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.