Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1951. Lodge.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
quiet-newel-pigeon
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 October 1951
Type
Lodge
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Coursed sandstone rubble, very thick walls showing evidence of rebuilding. Stone tile roof to nave and chancel, slate to tower. Nave with large three-light south window incorporating C15 tracery. Single tiny splayed opening in north wall. South doorway with Tudor arch, enclosed rubble porch with half-timbered gable. Inset chancel with gable drip course; paired lancets to east and south, plain square-headed opening to north. Broad low tower set over large mound, half timbered bellstage of smaller section with pyramid roof, small plain square-headed tower window to north.

Enclosed circular churchyard contains a number of low chest tombs with rubble bases and slab tops.

Typical Radnorshire plain single cell nave. Restored C15 roof with chamfered arch braces and cusped struts above the collars, three tiers of cusped windbraces. C14 octagonal font on square base. Inserted timber vestry partitioning at west end. Restored chancel screen C15 in origin but altered in form with loss of loft. Central square-headed opening with pierced quatrefoil tracery head, five further semi-circular arched openings with moulded uprights set on a low dado. Reset bressumer and moulded plank and muntin parapet. Chancel with arch-braced roof of 1895, wall plate partially replaced in concrete. Wooden reredos of 1895 with elaborate decorated style oak panelling. Triangular-headed aumbry. Memorial tablet to WilliamáJenkinsáRees, Rector of Casob 1806 - 1855, editor of Welsh Manuscript Society, author of Lives of Cambro-British Saints, prominent in the revival of the Welsh National Eisteddfod. Tower arch lined with primitive framework of very large re-used timbers. Two bells dated 1633.

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