Church of St Cedol

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Included as a largely unaltered and seemly C19 village church. History: Church in the Decorated style designed by Henry Kennedy (1814-1896), prolific architect for the Diocese of Bangor, and an early example of his work. Built in 1848 under the patronage of the Williams family of Plas Pentir, principally Jeremiah Green Jones Pym ap Ednyfed. The church replaced a single cell chapel which lay further to the N within the present churchyard, demolished in 1847. Exterior: Built of roughly squared igneous stone with margin dressed and scabbled gritstone dressings, the chancel joints galleted, and a large unit modern slate roof. Nave of 5 bays, divided by gabled buttresses. 2-light windows with trefoiled heads, and drip hoods with mask terminals. The short chancel has a lean-to vestry on the S with the heating chamber below. Triple lancet E window, and gable floriated cross. At the W end, a very tall gabled bellcote with 2 C17 or C18 bells and 2 lancets in the W wall. The windows are margin glazed. Gabled S porch with a chamfered outer arch, and a boarded door with heavy ironwork. Interior: The interior has 11 trusses with tie and curved struts to the apex, the feet being carried down to wall corbels. Moulded chancel arch leads up 3 steps to the chancel of 3 bays, demarcated by similar trusses. The vestry, which has direct access through the wall to the pulpit, has a fireplace with a stone surround. Three further steps lead up to the sanctuary which has a strong rail on turned balusters. The E window has rere-arches on slender quatrefoil shafts. At the W end a raked gallery of 2 bays has a balustraded front on cylindrical piers; the area below now converted to a kitchen and meeting room. Polished limestone pulpit cantilevered from the E nave wall on mou

From Cadw under OGL v3.