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Latitude: 53.2517 / 53°15'6"N
Longitude: -3.9756 / 3°58'32"W
OS Eastings: 268287
OS Northings: 374565
OS Grid: SH682745
Mapcode National: GBR 0ZPV.22
Mapcode Global: WH543.XJ0J
Plus Code: 9C5R722F+MP
Entry Name: Eglwys y Santes Fair (Parish Church of St Mary)
Listing Date: 14 April 1992
Last Amended: 14 April 1992
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3571
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300003571
Location: Impressively sited in large open churchyard high above village centre.
County: Conwy
Community: Llanfairfechan
Community: Llanfairfechan
Built-Up Area: Llanfairfechan
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Church building
Consecrated October 11 1849. Architect, H Kennedy (1814-98), of Bangor, North aisle added 1885 by Mrs Fanny North in memory of late husband, Thomas North. Some monuments and stoup transferred from old church.
Compact cruciform plan with added N aisle in the angle between nave and N transept. Belcote on W gable. Slate roof, walls in grey rubble with pale limestone dressings. In ‘Middle Pointed’ early Victorian version of C14 style; N aisle in style of circa 1300.
Small porch with steeply pitched gable, arched wooden doorframe and picturesque carved bargeboarding. To R, small 2-light nave window. At W end, nave has single light window, above this, belcot supported on corbelled triple-arches. Aisle W window 4-light with reticulated tracery, hoodmould with head stops; small window in apex of gable.
In angle between nave and N transept, added aisle in snecked dark stone. Three bays of 2-light windows in geometrical style of circa 1300. Stepped buttresses. North transept, diagonal buttresses, 2-light window with small window in gable. Organ chamber/vestry with door in angle between transept and chancel; 2 trefoil single light windows face E, cruciform window in gable apex. Chancel E window of 3-lights with cinquefoil lights and star-shaped tracery over. Hood mould with head stops. Single-light windows to N and S. Chapel in SE angle between chancel and transept has 2-light windows facing E and S, cruciform windows in apexes of gables. Transept with diagonal buttresses, 2-light window with small cruciform window in gable apex.
Three bay nave with added N aisle. Arcade supported on octagonal shafts. Aisle roof, common rafter type with collars. Interesting roofs to nave transepts and chancel of principal rafter type with arch-braces supporting king posts. Trusses supported on plain stone corbels except in chancel where angels support instruments of Christ’s Passion. Traceried wooden war memorial chancel screen with painted decoration. Screen and chancel arrangement by H L North, architect, of Llanfairfechan, circa 1925. Chapel to R of chancel; to L organ chamber with traceried screen.
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