St Mary's and St Nicholas's Church, Beaumaris

St Mary’s and St Nicholas’s Church stands in the small town of Beaumaris on the Isle of Anglesey. Built in the fourteenth century, it began as a chapel to serve the new town. The church has a decorated nave from the 1300s and a rebuilt chancel from around 1500. Its four-stage west tower has a battlemented parapet and was altered in the early nineteenth century. The exterior shows Perpendicular style, while the north vestry and south porch date from the same period. Inside, the church holds sixteenth-century chancel stalls and the coffin of Joan, wife of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth. Joan was married at fifteen and was the illegitimate daughter of King John. Late fifteenth- to early sixteenth-century misericords survive, though eight were replaced in 1902. The church also contains the tomb of William Bulkeley, deputy constable of the castle, made of Midlands alabaster. Monuments to figures like Sir Henry Sidney and members of his family adorn the chancel east wall. The churchyard is large, bordered by Church Street and Steeple Lane. Slate tombstones along the north wall record occupations and other details. Near the south porch stands a tomb of a local polymath, while some stones near the south path were damaged by machinery. The clock tower holds eight bells, six cast in 1819 and two added in 1914, all tuned to A flat.