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Latitude: 52.9139 / 52°54'50"N
Longitude: -4.548 / 4°32'52"W
OS Eastings: 228770
OS Northings: 338208
OS Grid: SH287382
Mapcode National: GBR 54.NKP8
Mapcode Global: WH44G.30KX
Plus Code: 9C4QWF72+HR
Entry Name: Church of St Ceidio
Listing Date: 19 October 1971
Last Amended: 15 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4268
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300004268
Location: Situated in a circular raised churchyard, on a hillock by minor lane running SSE from Edern, some 1.9 km from Edern village.
County: Gwynedd
Town: Pwllheli
Community: Buan
Community: Buan
Locality: Ceidio
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Church building
Anglican parish church, medieval origins, roof trusses of c1500. Substantially restored in 1897 but C18 memorials and fittings survive. Marked as 'Capel Ceidio' on 2" OS Drawings for 1816-19.
Anglican church. Small rectangular undivided structure with walls of large granite rubble boulders with C19 limestone dressings, slate roof with limestone copings and lage W bellcote. Plain three bay church, with N and S cusped lancets with hoodmoulds, E flat-headed 3-light window with hoodmould. W end moulded pointed doorway with hoodmould and oak boarded door. Double bellcote with two moulded pointed cusped openings, coped gable with cross finial, and two-step side buttresses.
Modest undivided interior, whitewashed plaster and three-bay roof. Three late-medieval arch-braced and pegged oak collar-trusses. Two of the trusses have cusped diagonal struts over the collars, the third, at E wall is plain. Purlins, wind-bracing and rafters are C19. Proportion of truss divisions suggests that chancel was once extended eastwards by one bay. E end wall has stone credence shelf on right and slate wall tablet under widow dated 1744. S wall brass plaque to Sara E M Williams-Parry-Jones of Madryn Castle who 'Restored this church in memory of her beloved brother Sir T Love D Jones-Parry 15th September 1897'. Pitch-pine pulpit and reading desk with Gothic tracery to blind panels. Late C19 pine pews with rolled tops, except for 4 centre pews that are earlier: vernacular bench type with open backs and carved initials: 'TPI Esq.'; 'Mrs Owens'; 'Rev Mr WO'.
Listed as a small rural church retaining some late medieval character including the surviving roof-trusses.
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