Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Lucia
Abernant, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 14 April 2008
- Community
- Abernant
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88177, -4.41410
- Cadw reference
- 87567
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
In large churchyard at centre of village.
History
Largely medieval with restored C15 cusped side windows to chancel. The chancel arch although plastered over may also be medieval. The belcote may date from 1706, but its top as well as the porch and most of the windows date from a heavy restoration of 1899 by David Jenkins (1847-1907), architect, of Llandeilo. A plan for the restoration appears to show that the bulk of the fabric of the church is medieval.
Exterior
Church of grey stone with slate roofs. Nave and lower chancel, W belcote and porch; vestry on N side. At W end is a double belcote, and gabled porch has doorway with boarded doors with strap hinges; further doorway in L return. On N side no windows to nave except a small lancet next to a vestry with hipped roof and 3-light window facing N. To L of vestry, a cusped lancet to chancel, and to L again, slate monument set into wall. Two-light E window to chancel. Old cusped window to S side of chancel. S side of nave has two C19 2-light windows with quatrefoils separated by stepped buttress.
Interior
C19 boarded roofs. Above chancel arch are corbels for rood beam; squint on S side of arch. Polychrome floor tiles; in chancel altar rail with iron scrolling to posts. Square font (possibly C12 or C13). Wall monuments from C18, early and late C19.
Reason for designation
A church with surviving medieval fabric, including carved stonework to some windows, and jambs to W door, as well as rood loft corbels.
Nearby in the register
- YstafellDomesticunder 1 mi
- CwmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen y Gaer HillfortHillfort1 mi
- Cwm FlowrogDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.