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Latitude: 51.4967 / 51°29'48"N
Longitude: -3.6469 / 3°38'48"W
OS Eastings: 285775
OS Northings: 178818
OS Grid: SS857788
Mapcode National: GBR H9.JWZL
Mapcode Global: VH5HH.QMXZ
Plus Code: 9C3RF9W3+M7
Entry Name: Church of St Tudwg
Listing Date: 26 July 1963
Last Amended: 29 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11223
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300011223
Location: Set back from E side of minor road through the hamlet, in a walled churchyard.
County: Bridgend
Community: Merthyr Mawr
Community: Merthyr Mawr
Locality: Tythegston
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Church building
First mentioned in 1173 when it was a chapel of Tewkesbury Abbey but an early Christian monument in the churchyard and the dedication to a Celtic saint suggest an earlier foundation. The present building is late medieval in origin but was almost completely rebuilt by John Prichard in 1876. Became redundant late C20.
Tudor-Gothic style church consisting of nave with bellcote and S porch, and a lower chancel. Battered rubble stone walls, coped gables and slate roof (part renewed). The nave has a 2-light window L of porch, 3-light to R, to R of which is a shallow projection (probably for a side altar). The porch has a plain 2-centred S doorway. Inside the porch is a pointed arched-brace roof and a S door similar to W and priest's door. The chancel has two 2-light S windows, a central late-medieval priest's door with 2-centred head and stop-chamfer surround, and a boarded door with decorative strap hinges. The E window has a renewed 3-light Perpendicular window. The N walls of chancel and nave have 1- and 2-light windows respectively. The W wall of the nave has a late-medieval doorway similar to but wider than priest's door. Above is a late-medieval 2-light window with ogee-headed lights. Gabled bellcote has a single segmental-pointed opening containing a single bell of late C14 or early C15 date.
The chancel arch is late-medieval and Tudor-headed. The remainder of the interior is C19. The nave has an arched-brace roof, the chancel a roof with scissor braces on short wall posts, and with a boarded ceilure over the sanctuary.
The font has a round bowl and pedestal, C13 but re-tooled C19. The plain round pulpit has a frieze of blind quatrefoils. The E window has early C20 glass depicting Christ, Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, by Jones & Willis. In the chancel N wall are 2 neo-classical tablets: to Lucy Lord (d.1856), with a willow draped over an urn, by T. Gaffin of London; and to Elizabeth Puget (undated) by Henry Wood. Other C17 and C18 wall tablets are in the nave, some brought in from outside during the 1876 restoration.
A small parish church with medieval origins, retaining good C19 detail.
Cross in churchyard is Scheduled Ancient Monument GM 214.
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