Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 August 1998. Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 August 1998
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a small church built in the Early Gothic Revival style, featuring a large northern tower. It is constructed from coursed or snecked rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a roof that combines Welsh slate and tiles, adorned with cruciform ashlar apex finials and decorative ridge tiles. The church's layout includes a nave, a south porch, a smaller lower chancel, and the large northern tower, which is attached at the junction of the nave and chancel.

The tower is topped with a tall pyramidal roof made of fishscale slates. The ringing chamber has large paired pointed lights with heavy slate louvres beneath a relieving arch that features a cruciform vent. Below this, there is an offset ashlar string course and two small lancet windows on the tower's faces. At the northwest corner, there is a five-sided staircase turret with lancets and a lead pyramidal roof, possibly weathercoursing to a former chapel roof, with a fragmentary wall below. The ground floor includes a large shouldered doorway in the east wall under a pointed relieving arch, as well as a small west doorway. The tower also has a battered plinth with an ashlar offset.

The chancel features large ashlar kneelers and an eaves course, along with large roughly dressed quoins. It has a very steeply pitched roof covered in small tiles and an east window with three lights displaying Decorated tracery, along with lancet windows on the north and south sides. The nave has a slate roof and deep buttresses at the east end with deep stepped offsets, as well as lancet windows and a tall chimney at the northeast.

The porch is notable for its heavy ashlar coping that ends in decorative kneelers. It has a chamfered pointed arched south door with block labels to the hoodmould, and the inner door features a pointed arched doorway with rockfaced voussoirs. Inside, the nave is plain, and there is a 13th-century font with a simple bowl on a low stem and an old cover. Some monuments from a former church have been re-erected here. The chancel arch consists of two orders with foliage stops, and the piers die back into the wall. The chancel roof, which has three bays, is arch-braced and supported on large corbels. The east window contains stained glass dedicated to Gwynne Holford d Buckland from 1859, an important local landowning family, while the southeast window features glass by Mayer of Munich. There is also a four-centred arched door leading to the tower at the northeast.

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