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Latitude: 52.6282 / 52°37'41"N
Longitude: -3.0894 / 3°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 326356
OS Northings: 303936
OS Grid: SJ263039
Mapcode National: GBR B2.7J1S
Mapcode Global: WH79X.J61J
Plus Code: 9C4RJWH6+76
Entry Name: Church of All Saints
Listing Date: 26 October 1953
Last Amended: 20 March 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 19546
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: St Mary the Virgin
ID on this website: 300019546
Location: Isolated building high up on Long Mountain and situated E of a minor road between Leighton and Marton. The church is reached down a private track and has a woodland plantation to its E.
County: Powys
Community: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan (Ffordun gyda Tre'r-llai a Threlystan)
Community: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Locality: Trelystan
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Church building
Early C15 church thoroughly restored in 1856, although its early roof survives.
Consisting of nave and chancel under a single roof, with S porch, W bellcote and N vestry. Timber-framed with brick nogging painted white, on a rubble stone plinth with dressed coping. Slate roof. The S wall has, to R of porch, 3x2-light mullioned windows with trefoil heads and lattice glazing, with similar window to L of porch. The porch doorway has an arch with a pointed trefoil, while the side walls each have 2 small openings of cruciform shape. The porch is laid with red and black tiles in diaper fashion, and has a boarded S door. The E window is 3-light with intersecting tracery formed of straight wooden battens. Above is a small triangular window. The W window is 3-light with lattice glazing, with a wooden cross above and a small triangular window similar to E. The N side has windows similar to S (and timber-framed vestry). The bellcote has a pyramidal roof and continuous louvres, below which it is weatherboarded.
C15 arched-braced roof with some C19 timber, alternate bays of which have hammer beams (said to have been sawn off tie beams and now with iron ties inserted through them), and cusped wind bracing. The walls are boarded with pitch pine. Flagstone floor with C17 and C18 memorial slabs in floor at E end. Five-light fragment of medieval rood screen; plain benches, Perpendicular-style octagonal font. The E window glass shows the Garden of Gethsemene, and is said to be by David Evans of Shrewsbury.
Listed Grade II* as the only surviving timber-framed church in Montgomeryshire, retaining good external character and internal detail.
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