St Dyfrig, Treforest
St Dyfrig, Treforest
St Dyfrig’s is a Grade II Catholic church at the south end of Broadway, Treforest, Pontypridd, a basilican church of 1926–27 by A. G. Lynham in the Diocese of Cardiff.
- Location
- Treforest, Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Glamorgan
- City / town
- Treforest
- Address
- Broadway, Treforest, Glamorgan, CF37 1DB
- Postcode
- CF37 1DB
- Built
- 1926–27
- Consecrated
- 14 November 1927
- Architect
- A G Lynham of Thomas and Morgan and Partners
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Dedication
- Dyfrig
- Diocese
- Cardiff
- Parish
- St Dyfrig, Treforest
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Basilican (Romanesque and Italo-Byzantine)
- Materials
- Steel frame, brick clad with stone dressings; slate roof behind coped gables
- Grid reference
- ST 083 892
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Non-accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Cadw records a mission of 1853 and a Gothic chapel-school of 1857 on Wood Road. Under Canon McManus, land on Broadway by the Taff was leased in 1921; the presbytery and war-memorial hall were up by 1924. Archbishop Mostyn laid the foundation stone on 4 November 1926 and consecrated the church on 14 November 1927. Lynham (1879–1958), partner in Thomas & Morgan & Partners of Pontypridd, designed it; Knox and Wells of Cardiff were contractors. It is Lynham’s only known Catholic church.
The steel-framed building is brick-clad with stone dressings under a slate roof. A five-bay west narthex has Romanesque doorways and a polygonal turret with copper dome. The six-bay nave has plaster tunnel vaulting, brick arcades and a polygonal apse. After Vatican II the original altar, rails and font were removed; Archbishop Murphy consecrated a new forward altar on 6 November 1975. Marquetry furnishings of 1999 are by parishioner Penanne Crabbe. Cadw lists the church for its distinctive inter-war basilican style (reference 24878). OS easting/northing 308333 / 189278.