Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1963. A Medieval Church. 4 related planning applications.
Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The church is constructed of random rubble with slate roofs to the chancel and nave. Three-light Perpendicular E window replacing the two-light squaare-headed window now re-set to N side. The E end of the nave and the stair tower have single octagonal shafted ashlar chimney stacks with crenellated caps. The S side of the nave is lit by a two-light, cinquefoiled window with foliate label stops. To the W of the porch is a single, square-headed light and a large buttress. The S porch has a slated gabled roof with an obtusely pointed, chamfered inner doorway and an acutely pointed outer doorway surmounted by a dripstone. Flanking stone benches. The tower has a saddleback roof with corbel table below and gables facing E and W. Each face has a square-headed louvred light with cross loopholes beneath. At the base of the tower is a heavy stringcourse. To the N side is the later staircase turret, lit by a trefoil headed lancet with cross loophole above. The W door has a rounded doorway with a two-light, cusped, square-headed window above. The N side of the nave is lit by a single cinquefoiled light with a square-headed light (formerly lighting the rood loft) above. At the W end of the nave is a trefoil-headed window. All the windows are glazed with lattice glass in pink, green and yellow. A round-headed doorway in the N wall leads to the rood loft mural staircase.
The chancel arch is rounded and plain with a pair of corbels, one either side indicating the original eaves height of the Norman church. The roof dates from the C15 and is in the form of a wagon roof. A Norman pillar piscina is set into the S wall of the chancel. On south side of chancel is a good early C18 classical wall monument to the Edwin family with fluted pilasters, composite capitals and semicircular pediment surmounted by putti and cartouche. The nave has a C19 arch braced roof with curved windbraces between the wallplate and the purlins and the principal rafters are lodged on large stone corbels. Panelled ceiling to the E end of the nave. On the N wall of the nave are four grotesque heads on the corbels, the other corbels around the church have small shields, each with a cross. On the N wall of the nave is a reset effigy of Griffith Grant (died 1591) with his hands elevated in prayer. A C19 pulpit, organ lectern and pews. C13 font on a circular stem to the N side of the nave. Tower arch is a narrow, two-centred arch.
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