The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Fachtnan (now)
Cathedral, former
The building has a roofless chancel, with a
triple window in the E gable. The sacristy, N of the chancel, is also
roofless although the nave is still in use. The nave has traces of pointed
arches suggesting the original presence of side aisles (Harbison, 1996). There
is an internal staircase in the W gable, which may
date partly from the early 13thc. building. The stepped gable with a short pyramidal tower is a later construction,
incorporating reused Romanesque capitals at the corners. A number of stone
crosses are situated in the chancel, graveyard and a
field W of the
church.