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Latitude: 52.1469 / 52°8'48"N
Longitude: -3.4653 / 3°27'54"W
OS Eastings: 299835
OS Northings: 250861
OS Grid: SN998508
Mapcode National: GBR YL.6T8D
Mapcode Global: VH5DH.W9FH
Plus Code: 9C4R4GWM+QV
Entry Name: Church of St David or St Llyr
Listing Date: 22 February 2001
Last Amended: 22 February 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24822
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Church of St David
ID on this website: 300024822
Location: The church stands in a churchyard on the S side of a bend in the Afon Irfon. It is reached down a long track N off a minor road some 3.5km W of Builth Wells.
County: Powys
Town: Builth Wells
Community: Duhonw (Aberdunhonw)
Community: Duhonw
Locality: Llanynys
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Church building
Anglican parish church on medieval church site, but probably mostly post-medieval, possibly C17 altered in C18 and mid C19. Recorded building work in 1687, c1778 and 1894. The interior looks as if work was done c1840-50, including the pews, paving and wooden window tracery.
Church, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs. Low nave and chancel with small late C19 timber W bellcote and stone S porch. Nave has close-eaved roof, windowless W wall, open timber bellcote with slate pyramid roof, S porch and two crude pointed windows with brick voussoirs and Y-tracery, the first in stone, the second in wood. N side has 2 similar windows with brick heads and timber tracery. Porch has pointed entry with stone voussoirs. Stone seats, reused moulded rafters in roof and arched doorway within with framed plank door. Chancel S has one small pointed window, N side is windowless and E end has small Y-traceried 2-light window.
Plastered interior with flat plaster ceilings curved down each side to side walls, chancel ceiling is lower. Red and yellow tiles to floor. Nave W end has horizontally-boarded vestry. Much retooled but probably medieval small octagonal font, the underside chamfered to octagonal pier broached to square at foot. C19 pews with fleur-de-lys finials to bench ends and similar chancel stalls. C19 pine pulpit with blind traceried panels on stone base. Late C18 turned altar rails with 4 fluted posts. E window has patterned glass of 1892. Nave S first window has glass of Presentation in Temple, after 1920, and second has colourful stained glass of c1900 with 2 angels and portrait in small upper light.
N wall has attractive Georgian memorials of the regional type with painted simple classical detail: Watkin Bevan (d 1808) by Price of Builth; David Meredith (d 1852), signed TPB, and Rev John Bevan (d 1847) and William Bevan (d 1868) (matching earlier Bevan memorial), signed TPB. On S wall Mary Richards (d 1830), signed Davies of Builth.
Included as a remote rural church with simple interior only lightly touched by Victorian restorers.
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