Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 March 1953. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
gaunt-slate-winter
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 March 1953
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Uncoursed small rubble and tabular shale, the W end built on large boulder foundations, and the chancel rebuilt above 1.5m probably in the medieval period. Slate roof. The plan is a single cell, with a S porch, and vestry with store added on the N side, and a conspicuous weatherboarded belltower at the W end with a sprocketed pyramidal roof and wind vane. Plain chamfered S door within the porch. Two and 3-light C19 trefoil-headed windows of Grinshill stone, but a mid C15 3-light E window, and reset single light medieval windows in the vestry. Buttresses of Breidden dolerite and red sandstone ashlar dressings added in the C19 to the E gable end. A pencil drawing of the mid-C19 in the church shows a large 5-light dormer on the S side.

Nave and chancel in one cell, the chancel raised by 2 steps. Fine C15 roof of eight and a half bays, consisting of arch-braced collar beam trusses, the centres dropped, and raking struts to the principles which carry two tiers of purlins each with cusped windbraces. The principal rafters are set on bracketed stub ties. The ceiling above is boarded over the rafters. Walls are unplastered, with late C19 oak carved cornice and splayed timber lintels over the wide splayed window reveals. Medieval stoup by S door. The W wall has been altered or rebuilt. A 3-bay arcade with pierced spandrels, probably of mid C19, crosses the W end and supports the belfry floor.

The tower has one bell, of the early C14, believed to be the earliest of the seven remaining medieval bells in the county, set in an early timber frame.

Fittings: C17 and C18 fielded panelling, perhaps from former box pews, reused as dado panelling in the chancel and across the west end. Richly carved reredos incorporating a carved board from the earlier reredos inscribed RP, VP 1608 commemorating the Pryce family of Glyncogen. Font, a simple C19 Bath stone tub with chevron frieze. Pulpit C19, with traceried sides and figures. C17 carved panels built into the reading desk fronts. Good quality oak pews by Douglas, with carved bands.

Glass: E window, a crucifixion by O'Connor, 1859, and in the S chancel, Our Lord and the Marys, 1898. In the vestry, C15 yellow-stain angels reset in the heads of the N and S lancets.

Monuments: A slate tablet on the E wall, to Rev Canon Edward Davies, rector, d.1793 set in a painted frame. On S wall, tablets to Robert Llewelyn Evans, d.1916 and brothers Joseph and William. Marble tablet in alabaster frame on the W wall commemorates the 1898 restoration.

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