Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Cynwyl
Aberporth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberporth, Ceredigion, designated on 20 June 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 20 June 1995
- Locality
- Aberporth
- Community
- Aberporth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.13041, -4.54930
- Cadw reference
- 16079
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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 on B4333, S of the centre of Aberporth.
History
Anglican parish church rebuilt 1855-57 on an old site, architect R. J. Withers and builder David Morgan.
Exterior
Pwntan stone with Bath stone dressings. Steep pitch slate roof with coped gables and cross finials. Nave, chancel, W bellcote, N vestry and S porch all in Decorated Gothic style. Battered plinth. W end has 2-light window with quatrefoil head and hood mould. Tall W bellcote with battered base, side buttresses and steeply gabled ashlar top with single bell opening. Nave S side has two sloping buttresses flanking two 2-light windows with varied foiled heads. S porch is steeply gabled with pointed arch and hood mould, inner door with hoodmould and carved head stops. Two similar 2-light windows and one 3-light window segmental pointed on N side all with hood moulds. Sloping buttresses at NW corner and between second and third windows. Chancel has one similar 2-light S, and 3-light E window with three quatrefoils to head and hood mould. Lean-to N vestry. Diagonal SE buttress and flat NE buttress, stepped up sill and string course on S and E.
Interior
Scissor rafter roof to nave, plastered walls and chamfered chancel arch with moulding dying into side walls and hood mould. Collar rafter roof with straight bracing to chancel. Heavy octagonal font with sexfoil panels, rosettes and drum base with slate shafts. Pine pews and panelled pulpit. Chancel fittings and E wall panelling by E. A. Roiser (c1939). E and W windows of patterned glass by N. W. Lavers (c1856). The E window has a central single C14 style panel designed by Alfred Bell, later of Clayton and Bell, and three stained glass panels in top roundels. The W window to Thomas Propert (d1839) and Jane, his wife (d1813), given by John Propert, High Sheriff 1856. Chancel S window to Berriman family by A. L. Wilkinson (c1939).
Reason for designation
Included as a good small Victorian Gothic church, the first by R J Withers in Cardiganshire.
Nearby in the register
- Three Monuments at SW Corner of Churchyard of Church of St CynwylReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Jenkins Monument and Railings to W of the Church of St CynwylCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Ty MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- DolewenDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.