Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Illtyd
Llantwit Fardre, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 October 1954
- Locality
- Upper Church Village
- Community
- Llantwit Fardre
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57080, -3.32661
- Cadw reference
- 25541
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
At corner of St Illtyd Road and Church Road
History
Nave and chancel said to date from around 1525; west tower dated 1636. Large extensions to S side of nave 1972-74.
Exterior
Brown rubble with slate roofs; nave, lower chancel, rendered tower. Tower has saddle-back roof, and round-headed W doorway; datestone with inscription "This stee/ple was made AM/DOM 1636/ Thomas Robt/ (Builder?)".
Nave has 2 windows, camber-headed window to W, and two 2-light Gothic windows. Chancel has 2-light N window, and 2-light Gothic E window.
On S side, modern extension in matching materials runs along whole elevations of nave and chancel; pitched roof next to nave; flat roof next to chancel; square-headed mullioned windows.
Interior
Nave with segmental plaster ceiling; chancel with 2 arch-braced trusses. Stained glass in nave (NW) by Frank Roper.
Reason for designation
Listed for surviving early fabric
Nearby in the register
- Parish Hall (also known as Carnegie Hall)Civilunder 1 mi
- Tomen y ClawddMotteunder 1 mi
- Leat Retaining Wall at Treforest Tinplate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Rolling Mill at Treforest Tinplate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.