Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Marys Parish Church
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bangor, Gwynedd, designated on 2 August 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23028, -4.12368
- Cadw reference
- 3986
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Between Garth Road and Maes-y-Dref, set in a rectangular landscaped churchyard.
History
Built 1864, by H P Horner, architect of Liverpool. Cost £4,650 partly donated by the future Lord Penrhyn
Exterior
Decorated Gothic. 6-bay aisled nave with SW porch; lower 2-bay chancel with SW 4-stage tower and octagonal spire. Rubble with freestone spire and dressings including crucifix finials, plinth bands, quoins and stepped and diagonal buttresses (gabled to W and E ends); slate roofs and boarded doors.
Pointed trefoil clerestory windows; 3 light aisle windows with alternatively varied cusped tracery, those to either side of porch have blind panels below, also to aisle W end windows. Caernarfon arch doorway with pointed trefoil tympanum and carved spandrels under rere arch; parallel flight of stone steps. Small lucarnes to spire; gabled bell stage with 2-light openings; punched trefoils and paired lancets below. 4-light E-window with stopped label and curved sided triangle gable window above. Lean-to vestry on N side with Y-tracery window and stone chimney. N entrance directly opposite S porch; gabled arch with geometrical tracery. 5-light W window with label and stellar pattern tracery; similarly shaped gable window above.
Interior
Interior has 6-bay nave; 2-order chamfered arcade and thin octagonal piers without capitals.
Scissors truss nave rood, boarded to chancel; broad aisles. Gothic furnishings and good stained glass window to S side.
Nearby in the register
- Gate Piers & Gates at entrance to St. Marys ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Tabernacle Chapel including Hall (Cwmni Theatr Hwyl a Fflag)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Erw FairDomesticunder 1 mi
- Erw FairDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.