Built to the designs of Bill Davies (employed at the time with S. Powell Bowen) and completed in 1967. The church was one of Davies' first major works, integrating modernist forms into the Welsh landscape by using few materials that were distinct to the locale. The church had white rendered walls, natural slate roof covering, and what Monica Cherry describes as 'meticulously detailed copper edging.' This detail shows sensitivty to the area with Wales' largest copper mine at Mynydd Parys nearby.
Meilyr Powel, RCAHMW, December 2020
Sources:
Monica Cherry, Building Wales / Adeiladu Cymru, (Cardiff University Welsh School of Architecture, 2005), p.26
Jonathan Vining, Modernism in Wales: an argument that the listing of post-war heritage is incomplete, Masters Dissertation, University of Bath, 2012-13, pp.64-65