Church of St Mary (Pennard)

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View from the east

The Church of St Mary is a church on the Gower Peninsula in Wales . The church, protected as a Grade II cultural monument, stands in a walled churchyard in an open field east of the village of Pennard .

history

The church is the younger of Pennard's two medieval churches. The older one was built in the 13th century as a parish church east of Pennard Castle , but abandoned in the 16th century due to siltation. Probably parts of the old church were used to build or expand the new parish church. The church was restored in 1847, the choir was rebuilt in 1891 and the sacristy was added in 1899.

The church is now part of the Parish of Three Cliffs , a parish of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon of the Church in Wales, along with the churches of St Illtyd in Ilston, St John Baptist in Penmaen and St Nicholas in Nicholaston . The church is freely accessible during the day.

Building description

The small church, built of quarry stone , has a single nave nave with a narrower and lower east choir and a two-story, crenellated west tower. On the south side it has a small entrance porch, on the north side there is the small sacristy. Inside it has a wooden barrel vault interrupted by the stone choir arch . Most of the colored glass windows date from the first half of the 20th century; a window on the south side was newly created at the turn of the millennium. The wooden pulpit dates from the 17th century, the baptismal font was reassembled from older pieces in 1937. There are also several memorial plaques in the church, including some from the 18th century and one for the Welsh poet Vernon Watkins, who was buried in the churchyard .

The Anglo-Welsh poet Harri Webb (1920–1994) is also buried in the churchyard.

literature

  • John Newman: Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan) (The Buildings of Wales; 3). Penguin, Harmondsworth 1995. ISBN 978-0-14-071056-4 , pp. 505-506

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cadw Listed Building Database Record: Church of St Mary, Pennard. Retrieved April 24, 2014 .
  2. ^ Stained Glass in Wales: Church of St Mary, Pennard, Swansea. Retrieved April 24, 2014 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 43.7 "  N , 4 ° 4 ′ 13.8"  W.