St Marys Parish Church, Bangor, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2303 / 53°13'49"N

Longitude: -4.1237 / 4°7'25"W

OS Eastings: 258341

OS Northings: 372466

OS Grid: SH583724

Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.0DRM

Mapcode Global: WH547.M2KF

Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJG+4G

Entry Name: St Marys Parish Church

Listing Date: 2 August 1988

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3986

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: St Mary's Church, Bangor
St Mary's Parish Church

ID on this website: 300003986

Location: Between Garth Road and Maes-y-Dref, set in a rectangular landscaped churchyard.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Built-Up Area: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Parish church

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History

Built 1864, by H P Horner, architect of Liverpool. Cost £4,650 partly donated by the future Lord Penrhyn

Exterior

Decorated Gothic. 6-bay aisled nave with SW porch; lower 2-bay chancel with SW 4-stage tower and octagonal spire. Rubble with freestone spire and dressings including crucifix finials, plinth bands, quoins and stepped and diagonal buttresses (gabled to W and E ends); slate roofs and boarded doors.

Pointed trefoil clerestory windows; 3 light aisle windows with alternatively varied cusped tracery, those to either side of porch have blind panels below, also to aisle W end windows. Caernarfon arch doorway with pointed trefoil tympanum and carved spandrels under rere arch; parallel flight of stone steps. Small lucarnes to spire; gabled bell stage with 2-light openings; punched trefoils and paired lancets below. 4-light E-window with stopped label and curved sided triangle gable window above. Lean-to vestry on N side with Y-tracery window and stone chimney. N entrance directly opposite S porch; gabled arch with geometrical tracery. 5-light W window with label and stellar pattern tracery; similarly shaped gable window above.

Interior

Interior has 6-bay nave; 2-order chamfered arcade and thin octagonal piers without capitals.

Scissors truss nave rood, boarded to chancel; broad aisles. Gothic furnishings and good stained glass window to S side.

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St Marys Parish Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd