Parish Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 June 1964. Church.
Parish Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- long-jade-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1964
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Michael, Ciliau Aeron
- OS grid reference
- SN 502 581
- Coordinates
- 52.20109, -4.19276
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Michael is a single chamber structure featuring a west bell-cote and a west porch. It is built of rubble with a slate roof and overhanging eaves. The west gable has a parapet and a bracketed bargeboard on the east side. The tall west bell-cote has a rounded gable and a round arched opening that houses a medieval bell. Each side of the church has four tall, narrow round arched windows with stone voussoirs, leaded glazing, and cut-stone sills, which were added in 1905. The easternmost window on both sides is set apart by a three-step buttress, with the eastern window and buttress on the north side being additions from 1905. The east end features a stepped triple lancet window from 1905 with Doulting stone dressings. The west end has three-step diagonal buttresses and a small gabled west porch with a round arched entry and paired boarded doors with stone voussoirs.
Inside, there is a boarded inner door with decorative strap hinges, a round arched head, and stone voussoirs. The nave retains its original 18th-century collar-truss roof with paired purlins, while the chancel roof, added in 1905, features arched braces on stone corbels and king-posts. The chancel and sanctuary are raised, and the east window contains a coloured central light from 1905 by Percy Bacon of London. There is a round arched recess in the north wall of the sanctuary, along with early 20th-century memorial tablets.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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