Church of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a 13th-century building, constructed of squared Cilgerran stone with steep slate roofs. Features of Pwntan sandstone include dressings around the west window and the south porch. The church comprises a single nave and chancel, a south porch, a west bellcote, and a southeast range with a parallel-roofed vestry or bier house. The architecture is simple Gothic, with timber-traceried windows set within large pointed arches, defined by stone voussoirs. These windows feature cusped Y-tracery and leaded glazing, with rounded corbels at the external angles.

The west end has a plinth, two chamfered sandstone windows, slate coping, and a bellcote with a pointed opening and coped gable. The north side has four chamfered pointed windows with slate sills and stone voussoirs, each featuring two lights of timber tracery. The south side includes a large, rusticated sandstone porch with a tall, pointed, chamfered arch and stone voussoirs, a Gothic-panelled door, and a thickly traceried overlight. A plastered, pointed doorway sits within the porch. Two windows are located to the right of the porch, mirroring those on the north side. The southeast range has a steeply-roofed west gable with a coped edge, a small west door with an eroded Tudor-arched head, possibly incorporating older reused materials, a windowless south side, and an east window similar to those in the nave. The main east window is larger, featuring three lights of timber intersecting tracery. Various plaques are inset into the walls.

The interior is plastered and whitewashed. The eight-bay roof has deep arched braces to the collar trusses, supported by corbels. The church contains plain pitch-pine pews and a pulpit. A single step leads to the chancel and another to the sanctuary. A decorative organ, by Liddiatt & Sons of Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire, is located at the west end, appearing early 19th century in style, though likely dating to the 1870s, and housed within a minimally Gothic box case. A 13th-century square font has unusual short round beads at its outer angles and some incised outlining. The altar rails are of simple Gothic design, dating from around 1850. Later 19th-century marble plaques displaying the Creed and Lord’s Prayer are on the east wall, alongside a later 19th-century pressed brick dado.

Several monuments are present. On the north wall are memorials to John Enoch (died 1833), John Lloyd Williams of Gwernant (died 1838), W.R. Bowen of Plas Troedyraur (died 1874), and James Bowen of Plas Troedyraur (died 1872), the latter two by Wood of Bristol. A memorial to Sarah Bowen (died 1798) is an oval marble plaque on a grey ground with a finely carved urn, by T. King of Bath. The south wall displays a brass plaque to Lt Col H.G. Bowen (died 1909), a marble plaque to Rebecca Bowen (died 1794) by King, a large marble plaque to Frances Bowen of Plas Troedyraur (died 1834) by D. Mainwaring, a Gothic plaque to E.E. Bowen (died 1869), and a late 18th-century marble plaque with an urn to the family of J. Bowen of Glunllebyng (died 1756), also by King. A 18th-century armorial plaque is located within the vestry.