Catholic Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. A Medieval Church.
Catholic Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- tilted-postern-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1976
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Catholic Church of St Michael, Powys
- OS grid reference
- SO 044 285
- Coordinates
- 51.947, -3.39228
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Catholic Church of St Michael is a building in a simple Gothic style, constructed with grey rubble walls arranged in courses and featuring pale ashlar dressings. It has a slate roof. The narrow southeast end of the church, which is the liturgical west end, faces Wheat Street and is flanked by a buttress and a battered plinth. In the center, there is a shallow projection with sides that taper towards the apex of the gable, which includes a two-light window at ground level and a small canopied niche above. The bellcote has two openings and a gable topped with a cruciform finial.
The southwest wall of the nave, which is buttressed, consists of five bays with a battered plinth and tall narrow lancet windows. There is a gabled ashlar entrance towards the eastern end of the southwest nave wall. The lower chancel features a group of three lancets and a gabled end with a three-light window in the Decorated style, complete with coloured borders and sacred monograms.
Inside, the nave has five bays and a timber roof supported by scissor trusses and wall-posts on corbels. An organ gallery is located at the Wheat Street end of the church. The chancel arch is tall, and the chancel also has a scissor truss roof. To the right in the chancel, there is a doorway and two recesses, one for a piscina and the other for a sedile, both adorned with trefoil heads. Just inside the main door is an octagonal stone font, likely designed by Hansom. The west gallery has a replacement organ that was installed in 2014.
Local climate
Catholic Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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