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

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 October 1971
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Built of coursed stone rubble of local origin, with a slate roof. A long single cell building with a boarded W door within a pointed arch, and above, a gabled bellcote. Three pointed-headed windows each side, and a similar window over the W door, all furnished with diamond pattern lead glazing. The E window is composed of three equally sized round-headed lancets with transomed timber frames, each containing coloured glass in the upper half.

A western entrance lobby with store on the S side is formed under a western gallery. Internal walls plastered above a dado formed with C17 panelling probably from earlier box pews, and bearing the dates 1687 and ST RM 1688. Six roof trusses forming 7 bays, of collar and king-post form with knee braces carrying the roof on 2 tiers of purlins, all probably C19 or refurbished at that time. The W gallery is early C19 with panelled cornice front, raked and carrying 4 ranges of pews.

Fittings: altar rail, probably early C19, turned balusters. Two timber lecterns. Octagonal Gothic pulpit with openwork tracery sides. Simple early C19 pews.

Monuments: on the Nave S side, White marble wall tablets: (a) Jane Brynker, d.1760, erected by William Wynn of Macsyneuadd; (b) a rectangular tablet to Mrs Jane Price of Rhiwlas (Mer) d.1727, noting a royal bounty was procured for the church; (c) Catherine Price, d.1727, 'who had not the external ornaments of costly apparel' wife of James Brynker, d.1644, he 'a great sufferer for his Royal Master' added; oval marble tondo with a fine draped profile bust over. On the N side: (d) Rev Augustus Jones, d.1910; and 3 slate tablets floated into the plaster; (e) Jane Jones, d.1790; (f) 3 children of Mary Powell, d.1812, 1835 and 1837, and John Powell, a son, d.1842 in the Gulf of Mexico, aged 25; (g) Mary Powell, d.1847, with Robert Powell, d.1855.

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