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Church of St Donat

A Grade I Listed Building in St Donat's, Vale of Glamorgan

  • St. Donat's Church, St. Donat's

  • Church of St Donat, St Donats

  • St Donat: modest Norman church with later additions lying below the west of the castle; restored 1878

  • St Donat: corbelled parapet to nave & c13 tower with corbelled battlements & small pinnacles; mid c16 Lady Chapel to the left

  • St Donat: late Perpendicular nave; plain round headed arch c12 chancel arch; chancel reconstructed c15

  • St Donat: east window in Perpendicular style in memory of Edward Stradling-Carne, d.1862; St Donat in centre

  • St Donat: ancient stoop for holy water just inside porch

  • St Donat: replicas of three Stradling couples on painted panels, dated 1590

  • St Donat: painted panel to Thomas Stradling, d.1480, & wife Jenet Matthew of Radyr, d.1533

  • St Donat: painted panel to Edward Stradling, d.1535, & wife Elizabeth Arundell of Lanherne, d.1513

  • St Donat: painted panel to Edward Stradling, d.1609, & wife Agnes Gage of Firle, d.1624

  • St Donat: painted panel in memorial to Edward Stradling-Carne, d.1862

  • St Donat: east end of church with castle in background

  • St Donat: east end of church from the south with c15 cross

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Entry Name: Church of St Donat

Listing Date: 22 February 1963

Grade: I

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 13329

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300013329

Location: In the bottom of the cwm below the west side of the castle.

County: Vale of Glamorgan

Town: Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen

Community: St. Donats (Sain Dunwyd)

Community: St. Donats

Locality: St Donats

Built-Up Area: St Donat's

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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