Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1952. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- open-flint-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1952
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a single-cell structure featuring a small west tower topped by a low broach spire. It has a south porch with a four-centred arch and is constructed of coursed rubble with a slate roof. The tower includes some rock-faced masonry and a drip course that serves as a hood mould over the windows. There is a pointed arch doorway at the southeast end of the nave, along with paired and single lancet windows, some of which have hood moulds. The east window and one at the east end of the south wall of the nave may be original.
The south doorway is chamfered and round-arched. Inside, the church has an arch-braced, hammer-beam roof with exposed rafters and a boarded underside. The chancel trusses are notable for their pierced apex treatment and quatrefoil ornamental wall-brackets. The chancel and sanctuary areas are raised. A restored 15th-century screen features six lights on either side of a central doorway, flanked by standards with elaborately capped bowtells. The tracery head of the doorway is missing, while the fretwork tracery in the lights has been replaced. The screen includes richly moulded mullions, a chamfered mid-rail, bead-moulded plank and muntin panelling, and a moulded head rail with mortices for loft framing.
An octagonal font sits on a new base, and the pulpit incorporates panelling that may have originated from pews, dated 1660 and 1661, featuring rich geometric and arcade work decoration. In the sanctuary, there is an early wood-lined aumbry and piscina, along with 18th and 19th-century wall tablets reset at the west end. The church also has encaustic floor tiles.
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