Parish Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 July 1966. House.
Parish Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1966
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Michael is an Anglican church built in 1773. It features a broad nave without aisles and a smaller, narrower chancel. The structure is made of rubble masonry with squared quoins and has a moderately pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves and close verges. A late 19th-century gabled bellcote with a cross finial is located at the west end, which also has a triple lancet window. Above the twin pointed doorways, there is a west window from 1876, with stone voussoirs framing the doorways that have later planked doors. The north and south walls of the nave each have three 2-light Decorated windows dating from 1863. The date of 1773 is marked on the quoin at the southwest corner. There is a blocked window with a cambered head and stone voussoirs at the northwest corner, which was part of a former gallery. The chancel has been lowered and features a Decorated east window, along with a small, partially blocked north chancel window that is obscured by a small rubble lean-to.
Inside, the church retains a complete set of oak box-pews from 1773 arranged in three ranks with fielded panels, each numbered and graduated on the north side of the nave for the retainers and the Williams family of Edwinsford. The family pew at the northeast corner of the nave has moulded panels, and similar panelling is found on the contemporary pentagonal pulpit. The font, likely from the late 18th century, has an octagonal Bathstone bowl on a pedestal and base. The chancel features late 19th-century details and has a boarded wagon roof. The west gallery was removed in 1876. There is a monument to Sir Nicholas Williams of Edwinsford, who died in 1745, featuring a cartouche over a cornice supported by fluted Corinthian pilasters, with an apron and pulvinated brackets adorned with acanthus moulding. A coloured east window was added in 1976 in memory of William John Davies, who passed away in 1973.
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