Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Church.
Church of St Michael
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a rural parish church built in a simple Gothic style. It features a continuous nave and chancel, along with an added north vestry and west porch. The structure is made of coursed rubble masonry, with large stones used as quoins and sandstone dressings. The porch is constructed from snecked rubble masonry and also has sandstone quoins. It has a slate roof adorned with a decorative tiled ridge and stone copings, and a single bellcote on the west gable topped with a decorative cross.
The church consists of three bays, each containing a pointed arched window with paired lights. The eastern window has three lights and a hoodmould, while the north vestry features a lancet window in its eastern wall and a pair of lancet windows in the western wall above the porch. The outer doorway of the porch is also designed as a pointed arch.
Inside, the inner porch doorway has a pointed arched head and leads into the west end of the nave. The nave has a roof consisting of seven bays, with exposed timbers and diagonally set tongue and groove panelling in between. It includes arch braced collared trusses with tie beams, which display a painted verse. The sanctuary is elevated by a single step and features a moulded rail supported by twisted stanchions with floriate brackets. The font, located at the west end of the church, has an octagonal bowl on a shaped plinth and square base. The windows date from the mid to late 20th century. The doorway to the north vestry also has a pointed head, and there is an organ recess directly to its west.
In the vestry, there are several slate memorial tablets, two of which are partially obscured by a cupboard along the west wall. These memorials include one for Morgan Jones of Borthwen fawr, who died in 1779; Reverend William Jones of Ty Fry, heir to the Lasynys estate, who died in 1806; David, son of Morris Roberts, who died in 1798; Ellis Wynne of Glyn, who died in 1691; Reverend John Morris, who died in 1852; and one other obscured memorial. On the south wall of the chancel, there is a marble tablet featuring a cherub's head above, dedicated to Johannis Owen, son of Robert and Margaret Owen, who died in 1690.
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