St Cybi, Holyhead
St Cybi, Holyhead
St Cybi’s is a Grade I Church in Wales church in a churchyard overlooking Holyhead’s inner harbour, entered from Market Square, in the Diocese of Bangor. It stands within the walls of a late Roman fort.
- Location
- Holyhead, Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Anglesey
- City / town
- Holyhead
- Address
- Market Square, Holyhead, Anglesey, LL65 1UF
- Postcode
- LL65 1UF
- Built
- Late 15th–early 16th-century rebuilding incorporating 13th-century masonry; 17th-century tower; restored 1877–79; Stanley chapel 1896–97
- Architect
- Sir Gilbert Scott (1877–79 restoration); south chapel 1896–97
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Cybi
- Diocese
- Bangor
- Parish
- Holyhead
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Late Perpendicular
- Materials
- Brown stone with battlemented parapets
- Grid reference
- SH 247 826
- Opening hours
- Open Easter to September 10am to 3.30pm, every day except Sunday.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Cadw records a church traditionally founded by St Cybi inside a late Roman fort. The present building is mainly a late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century rebuilding: a late fifteenth-century chancel incorporating thirteenth-century masonry; transepts of about 1480; north aisle of about 1500; south aisle and porch with stair turret of about 1520; a seventeenth-century west tower; an early nineteenth-century vestry; restoration of 1877–79 by Sir Gilbert Scott; and the south (Stanley) chapel of 1896–97.
The exterior is brown stone in late Perpendicular style with battlemented parapets. The two-stage west tower has a pyramidal roof and an eighteenth-century weather vane dated 1753. The south porch is richly carved, with heraldry, a Trinity under a canopy, and 1877–79 fan vaulting. The Stanley chapel holds an Italian marble monument by Hamo Thornycroft and a Morris & Co window designed by Burne-Jones. Cadw lists the church Grade I as an outstanding late medieval church in North Wales.