St Catherine, Pontcanna
St Catherine, Pontcanna
St Catherine’s is a Grade II Church in Wales parish church on Kings Road, Pontcanna (Canton), Cardiff, in the Diocese of Llandaff.
- Location
- Pontcanna, City of Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- County
- City of Cardiff
- City / town
- Pontcanna
- Address
- Kings Road, Pontcanna, City of Cardiff, CF11 9DE
- Postcode
- CF11 9DE
- Built
- 1883–86 nave; chancel 1892–93; west bays 1897
- Architect
- J Prichard; Kempson and Fowler; G E Halliday
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Catherine
- Diocese
- Llandaff
- Parish
- Canton
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival (Decorated tracery)
- Materials
- Thin-coursed dark brown Pontypridd stone rubble with Bath stone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs
- Grid reference
- ST 168 769
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Cadw records a church built in three phases. J. Prichard designed the first three bays of the nave in 1883–86 (his cruciform plan proved over-ambitious). Kempson and Fowler added the chancel with south chapel and north vestry in 1892–93 (foundation stone 1892). G. E. Halliday added the two west bays in 1897. The church is faced in thin courses of dark brown Pontypridd stone rubble with Bath stone ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. The plan is a five-bay nave and chancel, side aisles with separate gabled roofs, a Lady Chapel at the east end of the south aisle, and a gabled south porch.
Coflein, quoting the listing, describes wide aisles with yellow brick walls banded in red and black, timber arcades on slender quatrefoil stone piers, a carved reredos in Portland stone and alabaster, and stained glass including twentieth-century work by Comper. The church is listed for its architectural interest as a parish church by three noteworthy local architects.