Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1961. House.
Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- small-stair-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1961
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Victorian Decorated Gothic building featuring a triple nave plan. It includes a chancel with a north Lady Chapel and a south vestry/organ chamber. The nave was lengthened, and a west tower, originally intended to have a spire, was added along with a lean-to baptistery in 1906. The church is constructed of bull-nosed rubble masonry with freestone dressings, cill bands, plinths, gable parapets, and crucifix finials. It has gabled and stepped buttresses and slate roofs with cresting. The windows are mainly three-light, dating from around 1300, with varied tracery, alongside a four-light west window and a five-light east window, some of which feature uncarved stops to the hoodmoulds. The tower is three-stage with a crenellated parapet and a polygonal southwest stair turret, and the west entrance is deeply splayed. There are north and south porches with ogee and finial-headed arched entrances, and nook shafts to the inner doorways. The vestry has later style windows and an octagonal chimney stack.
Inside, the church features heavily tooled Bath stone with red sandstone banding. The timber roofs have crenellated wall plates and carved head corbels; the chancel roof includes bosses and is boarded in the eastern bay. The nave has five bays with foliage capitals on the quatrefoil piers, and the west window lights an open gallery with a petal pattern banded front. A classical marble monument by Chantrey of London is located at the entrance to the baptistery, which also contains an octagonal east font with a pyramidal cover on a stepped base. A full-width memorial screen by W D Caroe leads to the Lady Chapel, chancel, and vestry/organ chamber, which houses an organ by Nicholson. The chancel has three bays, with the western two arcaded and featuring a statue of an angel at the junction of the hoodmoulds. The north side openings have openwork screens. The church also includes ballflower ornamented sedilia and piscina, a shouldered arch aumbry, and a Last Supper reredos with ogee canopies by R W Boulton of Cheltenham. Gothic fittings include a hexagonal buttressed pulpit and a Puginesque eagle lectern designed by Nicholson and made by Clarke of Hereford. Most of the stained glass was created by Alfred O Hemming of London in 1903, with the east window dating from 1861 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.
There are truncated pier remains to the west in the churchyard.
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