Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. A C19 Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- silent-trefoil-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Llanfihangel-Y-Pennant, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 527 448
- Coordinates
- 52.98082, -4.19513
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building constructed from coursed stone rubble sourced locally, topped with a slate roof. It is a long single-cell structure featuring a boarded west door set within a pointed arch, above which is a gabled bellcote. The church has three pointed-headed windows on each side, along with a similar window above the west door, all adorned with diamond-pattern lead glazing. The east window consists of three equally sized round-headed lancets with transomed timber frames, each containing coloured glass in the upper half.
Inside, there is a western entrance lobby with a store on the south side, situated beneath a western gallery. The internal walls are plastered above a dado made of 17th-century panelling, likely salvaged from earlier box pews, and marked with the dates 1687 and ST RM 1688. The roof features six trusses arranged in seven bays, built in a collar and king-post style with knee braces, supporting the roof on two tiers of purlins, likely dating from the 19th century or refurbished during that time. The west gallery is early 19th century, with a panelled cornice front, raked and supporting four ranges of pews.
Fittings within the church include an altar rail, probably early 19th century, with turned balusters, two timber lecterns, and an octagonal Gothic pulpit with openwork tracery sides. The pews are simple and date from the early 19th century.
Monuments within the church include several notable wall tablets. On the south side of the nave, there are white marble tablets commemorating: Jane Brynker, who died in 1760, erected by William Wynn of Macsyneuadd; a rectangular tablet for Mrs Jane Price of Rhiwlas, who died in 1727, noting a royal bounty procured for the church; and Catherine Price, who also died in 1727, the wife of James Brynker, who died in 1644 and was noted as a great sufferer for his Royal Master, with an oval marble tondo featuring a fine draped profile bust above. On the north side, the monuments include Rev Augustus Jones, who died in 1910, and three slate tablets embedded in the plaster commemorating Jane Jones, who died in 1790, and three children of Mary Powell, who died in 1812, 1835, and 1837, along with John Powell, a son who died in 1842 in the Gulf of Mexico at the age of 25, and Mary Powell, who died in 1847, alongside Robert Powell, who died in 1855.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow 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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