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Latitude: 52.1005 / 52°6'1"N
Longitude: -3.2479 / 3°14'52"W
OS Eastings: 314620
OS Northings: 245424
OS Grid: SO146454
Mapcode National: GBR YW.9T5D
Mapcode Global: VH6B8.NGBK
Plus Code: 9C4R4Q22+6V
Entry Name: Church of St David
Listing Date: 9 March 1995
Last Amended: 9 March 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1372
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300001372
Location: Isolated position 3.2 kilometres south west of Painscastle, reached along pathway from Cwm.
County: Powys
Community: Painscastle (Castell-paen)
Community: Painscastle
Locality: Llandewi Fach
Traditional County: Radnorshire
Tagged with: Church building
Rebuilding on ancient site by Pritchard and Seddon 1857-1860. Small nave, chancel, south porch, louvred bellcote with pyramid roof. Rubble stone, clasping diagonal set buttresses, artificial slate roof. South wall of nave has unusual two-light windows in C14 bar tracery style with cusped heads and glazed lunette.
Very small churchyard with numerous tombstones and yew trees. Inscribed grave slab of 1691 by south east corner of porch.
Fireplace in north wall, flagstone floor, tall pointed chancel arch, boarded ceiling, re-used dado panelling, turned communion rails dated 1712, octagonal font, two simple C17 wood benches with scribed mouldings.
Included as a well-designed small country church by an eminent firm of Victorian architects; outstanding hillside setting.
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