Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St David
Llanycrwys, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanycrwys, Carmarthenshire, designated on 23 June 1967.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 23 June 1967
- Locality
- Llanycrwys
- Community
- Llanycrwys
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.08955, -3.97893
- Cadw reference
- 15637
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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 · 195 Lampeter (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
In a walled churchyard on the E side of a minor road approximately 1.1km NE of Ffaldybrenin and 0.7km NW of Farmers.
History
A medieval church restored in the mid C19 and restored again in 1891-2 by Ewan Christian, architect of London, at which date most of the extant furnishings were installed. Windows are all C19. The porch was added c1900.
Exterior
A simple Early-English style church comprising nave and chancel under a single roof, W porch and N vestry. Of rubble stone, and slate roof behind coped gable to the W end, with overhanging eaves and W bellcote. The S wall is battered, while the remaining walls are battered only at the base. The S wall has a central 2-light geometrical window, a single-light window to the L and small cusped light to the chancel on the R. The E window, of 1891-2, comprises 3 stepped lights. The N vestry, under an outshut roof with tall octagonal stone stack to the E side, has a 2-light square-headed W window. On the E side of the vestry is a lean-to coal shed beneath a single chancel light with shallow trefoil head. Otherwise the N wall has only a single small square-headed light towards the E end. The porch is of snecked stone with timber-framing to the gable. The W door has a single ovolo moulding, hood mould, and double boarded doors. Over the porch is a single lancet. The gabled bellcote has a round-headed opening for a single bell.
Interior
Nave and chancel have a continuous roof of closely-spaced rafters with collars and diagonal struts. A C19 rood beam marks the separation of nave from chancel. In the nave N wall is a doorway to the vestry and a doorway at higher level to its R, both medieval and giving access via stairs to the medieval rood loft.
The square font bowl is medieval and retains its lead lining, but stands on a C20 stone pedestal and base. Plain pews were installed in 1891, as was the polygonal pulpit with blind panels below open cusped ogee arches. The wooden communion rail is on twisted brass balusters.
Reason for designation
Listed as a church with substantial medieval fabric and retaining definite character following C19 restorations.
Nearby in the register
- Ffaldybrenin Independent Chapel including attached building to right.Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gelli FarmhouseDomestic1 mi
- Hirfaen Standing StoneStanding Stone1 mi
- Cow house at Croff-y-CyffAgriculture and Subsistence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.