Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Tecla including the Churchyard with Tomb Chests
Penybont, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandegley, Penybont, Powys, designated on 11 August 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 11 August 1993
- Locality
- Llandegley
- Community
- Penybont
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.25746, -3.26251
- Cadw reference
- 9305
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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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set in a raised churchyard away from main road.
History
Rebuilt 1876 on old foundations by S W Williams, architect of Rhayader, who added the chancel. The tower was rebuilt in 1953 after a collapse, using stone from Llwynbarried Hall, Nantmel. The cusped south door is said to have been removed from Abbey Cwmhir.
Exterior
Long low nave, slightly narrower and lower chancel, low west tower with squat broach spire, south porch. Rubble stone incorporating much older masonry in the north and south walls, buttresses on each side. Slate roof to main body of church, shingles to tower. Septifoil-headed doorway in south wall with corbelled head above. Perp windows, tower has round-headed openings.
The churchyard is sub-circular and has numerous chest tombs with finely carved designs.
Interior
Arch-braced roof with diagonal braces above the collar and herring-bone boarded underside. The truss dividing the chancel from the nave has a tie-beam with open arcadework above, the feet of the chancel roof trusses rest on brackets with pierced trefoil ornament. C15 screen largely rebuilt; six lights either side of wide doorway with tracery head, brattished head rail, moulded mullions, chamfered mid-rail and plank and muntin panelling. Tracery heads to the lights on the south side are original but have lost rosehead cusps shown in earlier illustrations. Font possibly Norman, plain round bowl on cylindrical stem. Pulpit, lectern, reredos, vestry screen, pews, communion rails, encaustic tiles all of 1876 in Gothic style. Glass by Jones and Willis. The alter table has fixed to it a length of enriched timberwork with foliage scroll, the provenance is unknown. C17 communion table with split bobbin work in vestry.
Nearby in the register
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- Telephone Call-box to NE of the Parish ChurchCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Burton House (formerly the Post Office)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings 10m NE of Little GraigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.