St Brynach, Nevern
St Brynach, Nevern
St Brynach's is a Grade II* Church in Wales parish church at Nevern, Pembrokeshire, in the Diocese of St Davids. Cadw lists a fifteenth-century church with an earlier tower, much restored in 1864 by R. J. Withers of London.
- Location
- Nevern, Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Pembrokeshire
- City / town
- Nevern
- Address
- St Brynach, Nevern, Pembrokeshire, SA42 0QE
- Postcode
- SA42 0QE
- Built
- C15 with earlier tower; restored 1864
- Architect
- R J Withers (1864 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Brynach
- Diocese
- St Davids
- Parish
- Nevern
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Perpendicular; Victorian restoration
- Materials
- Rubble stone with slate roofs; Forest of Dean stone dressings (1864)
- Grid reference
- SN 083 400
- Opening hours
- Open during daylight hours.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
The plan comprises a west tower, nave with short south aisle and north projecting chapel, and a slightly offset chancel, in rubble stone with slate roofs. The 1864 restoration replaced window tracery with intersecting ogee tracery of early Perpendicular type, added the south porch, and introduced Forest of Dean stone dressings. The tower is broad with a battered plinth, small two-light bell-openings and a corbelled embattled parapet. The south aisle is unusually two-storey, with a priest's chamber in the loft.
The interior has 1864 tower and chancel arches, roof and a two-bay Forest of Dean stone arcade. Cadw notes a fine 1864 Bath stone font and pulpit, a dismantled medieval font, and low stone quadripartite rib vaulting in the south aisle, unique in north Pembrokeshire. Early inscribed stones, one with Latin and Ogham, were found in 1906 in the wall to the priest's chamber. The churchyard, separately listed, holds the Great Cross and the Vitalianus Stone. Coflein records the site as an early medieval clas centre associated with St Brynach.