Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- hushed-paling-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Llanfihangel Bachellaeth, Pwllheli, Buan
- OS grid reference
- SH 304 342
- Coordinates
- 52.87923, -4.52148
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is an Anglican church featuring a small rectangular structure built with granite rubble walls and dressed stone openings. It has a purple slate roof with coped gables, a gabled west bellcote, and an east cross finial. The east end has a later 19th-century pointed two-light window with coloured latticed glazing and plate tracery. Each side wall contains three small 19th-century lancet windows with lattice glazing. The west end has a boarded pointed doorway with a stone surround, while the inner jambs are made of brick. Above the doorway is a small round window with latticed glazing, and the 19th-century bellcote houses a single bell in a pointed opening. There is a brick and stone stair of seven steps on the north wall's west end leading to a boarded gallery door with a flat stone head.
Inside, the church is undivided and features a nine-bay roof supported by seven 19th-century arch-braced collar trusses with triple purlins. The timber-panelled west gallery has 20th-century boarding beneath and a reset 19th-century pointed door. The pews are plain 19th-century pine with flat ends and long-panelled backs. The pulpit and desk are also made of plain pine, featuring cusped panelling. The sanctuary has a raised boarded floor made of pine and a Gothic altar-rail with stick balusters. The walls are finished in painted stucco with a pine dado. Additionally, there is an octagonal late medieval gritstone font with a pedestal.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,660 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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