Church of St Peter, Painscastle, Powys

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1092 / 52°6'33"N

Longitude: -3.2551 / 3°15'18"W

OS Eastings: 314144

OS Northings: 246395

OS Grid: SO141463

Mapcode National: GBR YV.9C70

Mapcode Global: VH6B8.J7JX

Plus Code: 9C4R4P5V+MX

Entry Name: Church of St Peter

Listing Date: 18 September 1960

Last Amended: 9 March 1995

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 8760

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: St Peter's Church, Llanbedr Painscastle
Church of St.Peter, Llanbedr Painscastle

ID on this website: 300008760

Location: Isolated position 1+ miles west of Painscastle village.

County: Powys

Community: Painscastle (Castell-paen)

Community: Painscastle

Locality: Llanbedr Painscastle

Traditional County: Radnorshire

Tagged with: Church building

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History

C13/C14 with C15 chancel, restored 1880's (plan dated 1879 by J H Evins of Hereford hangs in church).

Exterior

Low nave with chancel under lower roof line, south porch, west open bellcote with two small bells. Rubble stone, slate roofs. Priest's door under elliptical head. 3-light windows with Perp tracery in local style in chancel and reset in rebuilt west end. South wall of chancel and east end of nave have two-light cusped windows, north wall of nave a wide crude trefoil-headed light. Exceptional arrangement at east end of chancel which has small cusped light under square head high in apex, leaving a blank east wall presumably originally for a reredos inside. Porch stoup, chamfered south door.

Sub-circular churchyard with some chest tombs.

Interior

C19 nave roof, C15 barrel roof to chancel with thin moulded ribs. Plain round-headed plastered chancel arch. Circular font on cylindrical base. Flag floors with some memorial stones. Several C18/C19 wall tablets in chancel. Furnishings by Evins.

Reasons for Listing

Included at Grade II* as a simple but largely unaltered medieval church with close historical associations to the Rev F Kilvert.

External Links

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II Cwm Farmhouse
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Church of St Peter

A Grade II* Listed Building in Painscastle, Powys