Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 September 2012. A Modern Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- fallen-portal-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 September 2012
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Llan Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 699 419
- Coordinates
- 52.95867, -3.93768
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a Neo-Norman parish church featuring a nave, chancel, a west bellcote that replaces the original spirelet, a south porch, and a north vestry. It is constructed from grey limestone and has round-arched windows, a linking string course, shallow buttresses, and a low plinth. The nave consists of five bays, with the western bay being blind. The west end has three windows and a tall gable window above, while the east window features three lights under a large arched hood. A gablet crosses to the east gable of the nave and chancel, and the church has a slate roof. The south porch was added during restoration work in 1913.
Inside, the church has a broad interior with a roof supported by slender trusses that spring from corbels and feature open framing. The short chancel has a flat roll-moulded horseshoe chancel arch resting on thick round columns. There is a deep timber gallery at the west end, set on stone columns. The pulpit is square and made of timber, and the font is crafted from silver granite. The east window contains late 19th-century stained glass, the south window was created by C.C. Powell around 1944, and the north window was made by Jones & Willis around 1914.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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