Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Mary
Gladestry, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Locality
- Newchurch
- Community
- Gladestry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.14930, -3.14697
- Cadw reference
- 15347
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set above the road in a large, partly embanked enclosure with numerous chest tombs.
History
Rebuilt 1856/7. The curate at the time (later Rector) was Revd. David Vaughan, friend of Revd. Francis Kilvert, who was a frequent visitor and who preached in the church on occasion.
Exterior
Nave, small chancel, west tower with broach spire, south porch. Coursed rubble, slate roof, buttresses and copings. Wide lancet windows. Interior - tall narrow chancel arch, arched tower opening and choir gallery set over plaster corbelled heads. Similar corbels under feet of slender roof cross-braced trusses. Early monolithic font. C17 communion table, some C18 dado panelling. Memorial tablets to Beavans of Tyn-y-Cwm. C14 bells.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple, unaltered church of mid C19 date having close historical associations with Rev. Francis Kilvert.
Nearby in the register
- Barn at Great House on SW side of FarmyardAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Great House including former Barn Range attached to rightAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gaer Roman SiteEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Tyn-y-CwmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.