Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
ghost-porch-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a small, simple Gothic style church that features a nave with a lower and narrower chancel, as well as a west tower. The walls are constructed of rubble stone with freestone dressings and red sandstone quoins, and the roof is made of slate. The three-stage tower has a slightly battered base and includes a corbelled northeast stair turret that is integrated into the nave wall. The south doorway is pointed and has a continuous chamfer with a boarded door. On the west face, there is a window to the ringing chamber that consists of two round-headed lights under a drip mould, positioned well above. All sides of the tower have narrow belfry openings, and the pyramidal roof is topped with a finial.

Inside, the nave features two 2-light windows with pointed quatrefoil tracery, although they are not symmetrically placed. To the left of these windows is a blocked former south doorway. The chancel's south wall also has a blocked doorway and a small medieval cusped window that has been infilled. The east window of the chancel is a three-light window with intersecting tracery. On the north side, there is a gabled vestry that includes a 2-light north window, a doorway to its right, and an east doorway with a boarded door. The nave has two cusped north windows.

The nave has a plastered wagon roof, a tall plain plastered tower arch, and a similarly plain but chamfered chancel arch. The chancel features a polygonal boarded wagon roof, and there is a pointed ribbed north door leading to the vestry.

The church contains a painted octagonal font from the 19th century. The pews are plain with moulded ends, and the choir stalls have poppy heads. There is a simple wooden communion rail and two wall tablets. In the north wall of the chancel, there is a memorial to Daniel Davies, who died in 1828, featuring a marble sarcophagus on a slate background. The south wall of the chancel has a memorial to the Rev Thomas Thomas, who died in 1926, which is a simple classical tablet on a slate background created by A M Lewis.

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