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Latitude: 51.5033 / 51°30'11"N
Longitude: -3.5787 / 3°34'43"W
OS Eastings: 290523
OS Northings: 179444
OS Grid: SS905794
Mapcode National: GBR HD.JGK6
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.XGGX
Plus Code: 9C3RGC3C+8G
Entry Name: St Mary Nolton Church
Listing Date: 29 September 1986
Last Amended: 29 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11293
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300011293
Location: Beside the road with churchyard to E.
County: Bridgend
Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Community: Bridgend
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Church building
Formerly a chapel of ease to St Mary Coity. Begun July 1885, work delayed by 1886 storm damage, consecrated November 1887 and spire added in 1897; designed by John Prichard, Llandaff Diocesan Architect, completed by Frederick Kempson.
Early English style cruciform plan with lean-to aisles, 4-stage tower and later polygonal spire with weathervane to NW. Bull-nosed rubble masonry, freestone dressings, spire and gable parapets; stepped buttresses and plinth. Slate roofs with corbelled and coursed eaves. Western type blind lancet panelled corner tourelles flanking lucarnes over belfrey lancets; paired square headed windows below; porch with foliated capitals and stopped hoodmould to N face. Tripartite W window with bar tracery to centre over gabled porch to similar entrance. Paired lancets to aisles, alternating in the clerestory with single lancets; 4 grouped lancets to chancel S side; plate tracery E window with paterae and punched trefoil to gable. Gable ended organ chamber extends to N with petal pattern roundel above 2-light window; paired cylindrical stacks at main eaves level.
Ashlar 2-storey interior with wagon roofs, boarded over the sanctuary. 3-bay aisled nave, W bay of N aisle forming lobby under tower which has head stops by Clarke of Llandaff of Prichard and the Rector’s wife. 1 ½ bay chancel with S vestry and N organ chamber. Chamfered nave arcades on cylindrical E E piers with paired corbel responds on varied carved stops. Filleted shafts and annulettes to windows; continuous clerestory arcade, blind to chancel N side. Broad arches into organ chamber and vestry.
Fine S aisle war memorial and Gothic tryptych reredos, depicting the Adoration of the Magi, by J Coates Carter. S aisle stained glass by W F Dixon of London, 1887; E window? Seddon. Gothic furnishings.
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