Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Nicholas
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Monington/Eglwys Wythwr, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, designated on 27 October 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 October 1992
- Locality
- Monington/Eglwys Wythwr
- Community
- Nevern
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.06120, -4.72135
- Cadw reference
- 12781
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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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in isolated position some 150m down lane running S from junction about 330m E of Rhydyfantwn Bridge.
Exterior
1860 Anglican parish church designed by R.J.Withers, architect of London, in tooled blue lias ashlar with slate roof and red tile cresting. Nave, chancel, N porch, SE vestry and W bellcote. Small Gothic church with cusped lancet windows, one pair to each side of nave, 2-light with quatrefoil head to chancel N, 2-light with sexfoil head to E and single lancet to S chancel Lean-to S chancel vestry with shouldered head to W door, 2-light E window and fine chimney stack on chancel S wall, battered in three steps and with square smoke vents under hipped stone cap. N porch is gabled with roll-moulded pointed doorway and similar inner door with wrought-iron hinges. W front has projected centre, 2-light plate traceried W window with trefoil head, the projection shouldered at springing level of window and then continuing up, first battered and then straight, to base of Doulting stone bellcote; battered sides and then pointed arch with chamfered piers, coped gable and weathercock.
Churchyard is roughly circular with gates at NW. Iron railed enclosure for tombs of James family of Pantsaeson.
Interior
3-bay nave roof with arch-braced collar trusses, octagonal stone font and timber pulpit. Plastered walls and chancel arch. Scissor rafter roof to chancel, timber reredos and altar rails. Two strips of painted decoration in tones of brown on chancel side walls, cherubs and angels.
Reason for designation
A well designed small church in severe High Victorian Gothic manner.
Nearby in the register
- Bier House in Churchyard at St Nicholas ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Plas Lawrence, including two Bee boles in front of Garden WallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rhydyfantwn BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- Glandwr, including attached outbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.