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Architectural Town Walk

William Butterfield's church of St Mary

St Mary Welsh Church

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William Butterfield's church of St Mary is the Welsh Church and is in a group of modest houses built by the Nanteos Estate, the ground sloping such that the east end of the church rides high. The church dates from 1865-6 and was built to counter the fear that Welsh speakers would desert to the nonconformists. The patron was Rev. E. O. Phillips with whom Butterfield quarrelled so severely that he abandoned supervision of the construction and also refused the job of restoring the medieval parish church of Llanbadarn Fawr, outside the town. St Mary's is built in dark local stone with ashlar dressings. Externally the best features are the east end with a Decorated tracery window and the high lines of the chancel. Inside there is simple plaster on the outer and arcade walls, thus pushing the focus east to the low chancel arch. The nave roof is unusual, emphasizing broken lines rather than smooth curves, with curious schematic wind bracing, a suggestion that Butterfield had a far from conventional attitude to form and function. There is a stone reredos with painted circular panels. The stained glass windows are by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, by John Davies of 1892 and, in the north aisle, of 1925 by H. Wilkinson and another of 1903 by A. O. Hemming.

The streets bear the names of their patrons: George Street and William Street from George and William Powell, and, of course, Powell Street, built in 1864 and mainly occupied by employees of the new railway.

Left into Greys Inn Road

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