Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Parish Church of St Tudclud
Bro Machno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 July 1992
- Locality
- Penmachno
- Community
- Bro Machno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.03889, -3.80627
- Cadw reference
- 5909
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set in large walled churchyard to NE of Gethin Square.
History
Built following demolition of old church c1857: architects Lloyd-Williams and Underwood of Denbigh. Building financed by Col Edward Douglas-Pennant who had purchased Ysbty Estate in 1856.
Exterior
Small church in simple mid C19 Decorated Gothic style. Grey rubble, golden limestone dressings. slate roofs. Nave of 5 bays of trefoiled lancets; lower 2-bay chancel. Belcote at W gable. Buttressed north porch. South side has broad arched opening (modern glazing) formerly to (demolished) transept. Two windows to W end trefoiled with hoodmoulds and head stops. East window of 3-lights with geometrical tracery. Vestry in S angle between nave and chancel.
Near S corner of churchyard (to W of Post Office) is war memorial. Polished red granite obelisk with inscribed names of those lost in World Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. Obelisk is elevated on stone plinth and behind cast-iron railings. The plinth is hammer-dressed grey stone with square-sectioned urn finials to end piers.
Interior
Aisleless nave. Chancel arch and broad arch to former S transept have alternating voussoirs of dark and pale stone. Steeply-pitched arch-braced roof with wall-posts on stone corbels. Chancel has 2 windows to N; single window and door to vestry to S. Simple C12 font on square base. Near font, on N wall of church is medieval stone grave slab from from old church and graveyard. The church contains the Penmachno Stones, inscribed Early Christian stones dating from 5th to 9th Centuries, brought from various locations in the parish. Four of the stones are mounted on the N wall of the chancel; a further stone is mounted near the font.
Reason for designation
The Penmachno Inscribed Stones are Scheduled Monument, Cadw Ref No Cn 182.
Nearby in the register
- Six Inscribed Stones in St Tudclud's Church, PenmachnoInscribed Stoneunder 1 mi
- 3 Church ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Church ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Church ViewDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.