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St. Cadoc's Church, Llangattock Lingoed

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 02501g
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Grosmont
Unitary authority : Monmouthshire
NGR : SO36152006
Site Type (preferred type first) : Medieval Church
Status : listed building I

Summary :
The church at Llangattock Lingoed is first mentioned in 1254. It consists of nave, separate chancel, W tower and S porch. Much of the surviving medieval masonry is Decorated and Perpendicular, and there was a restoration in 1872.

Description :
The church at Llangattock Lingoed is first mentioned in 1254 (Brook 1988, 80). However, it has a Celtic dedication (St Cadoc), and the S side of the churchyard is curvilinear. The churchyard also appears to be covered in earthworks, though their form is not readily apparent on the ground. The churchyard cross survives.

The church consists of nave, separate chancel, W tower and S porch. The bressummer of the rood screen is preserved at the E end of the chancel; the rood stairs were at the N side of the junction between nave and chancel, but have now been blocked up; the rood stair window noted by Crossley and Ridgway (1959, 44) is not visible. The church closely resembles the neighbouring Llanvetherine with its high narrow nave and the general form of its tower, but it lacks the exaggerated jettied battlements of the latter.

Almost all the masonry, with the exception of parts of the tower and chancel, is concealed behind heavy smears of mortar left by unsympathetic pointing. It is not possible to say anything about most of the masonry, although the tower and at least parts of the chancel are constructed of coursed rubble using narrow blocks of local sandstone.

The chancel arch and tower arch are extremely simple with two-centred arches with a single plain chamfer and broach stops. They could be of any period from the 13th century onwards, and it is not possible to say whether they remain from an earlier structure, like the font and the piscina on the S wall of the nave, or whether they date with most of the rest of the openings to the reconstruction of the church in the early 16th century.

The openings in the tower all now have two-centred trefoiled lights of Decorated type; those in the belfry stage are clearly replacements, and the wide almost semi-circular shape of the window heads is such as to suggest that the openings themselves are more likely to be 15th/16th century. The tracery in the ground floor window however is less unconvincing, but it is not possible given the current state of the walls to assess properly whether this window is an insertion.

There was a restoration of 1876 recorded by a framed notice in the porch recording a grant from the Incorporated Society may have probably responsible the insertion of a second window with coarse-grained limestone (?Bath stone) dressings in the S wall of the nave, though the application records only repairing walls and reseating (ex inf J Newman). More recent restoration, since 1981 (Kay nd 4 ser v 111) is responsible for the consolidation of the tracery of most of the windows in cement).

There is an early font. Apart from the remains of the rood beam still in the church, the notable woodwork comprises two box pews in the chancel, one dated 1634, and some panels and other wooden elements dated 1593 and 1617 which have been combined in the Victorian period to form a screen between the nave and tower. The 17th century is also the probable date of the window on the N wall of the nave. Wright (1938b, 235-6), notes three bells, all of 1829.

References:
Bradney, J A, 1906, A history of Monmouthshire. Vol 1 pt iia, The Hundred of Abergavenny, 260-2
Brook, D, 1988, The early Christian church in Gwent, Monmouthshire Antiq 5, 67-84
Crossley, F H, and Ridgway, M H, 1959, Screens, lofts and stalls situated in Wales and Monmouthshire. Part ten, Section XIII: Monmouthshire Archaeol Cambrensis 108, 14-71
Wright, A, 1938b, The church bells of Monmouthshire iii, Archaeol Cambrensis, 93, 226-47 (235-6)
Evans 1997 GGAT 51 Historic Churches Project

Sources :
Brook, D , 1988 , The Early Christian church in Gwent
Evans, E M , 2003 , Early Medieval Ecclesiastical sites in Southeast Wales: Desk based assessment
Locock M and Maynard D J , 1997 , Monmouthshire Historic Settlements An Archaeological Survey Part 1: Hundreds of Abergavenny and Skenfrith
The Handley Partnership , HAAbase built heritage assessment system: Buildings at Risk database
01/Mm Mention/Holland E/2003 Oct/Conservation Officer/Monmouthshire CC
Evans EM, 2003-04, GGAT 73 Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites Project
EM Evans (1998) GGAT 51/81 Welsh Historic Churches Survey: Glamorgan and Gwent

Events :
E001386 : Early medieval ecclesiastical sites in Southeast Wales desk based assessment (year : 2003)
E008750 : GGAT52: Monmouthshire Historic Settlements (Part 1), Abergavenny & Skenfrith (year : 1996-1997)

Related records
Church in Wales Reference No. 150 https://churchheritagecymru.org.uk/CHR/ChurchDetails.aspx?id=2982

Compiled date : 12-03-2004


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