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. Terrace. 4 related planning applications.

Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 February 1963
Type
Terrace
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels is a late medieval church constructed of random rubble with slate roofs covering the chancel and nave. An 18th-century monument and features from the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 19th centuries are present. A three-light Perpendicular window replaces an earlier two-light square-headed window, which has been re-set into the north side of the building. Octagonal shafted ashlar chimney stacks with crenellated caps rise from the east end of the nave and stair tower. The south side of the nave is illuminated by a two-light window with cinquefoiled tracery and foliate label stops. A single square-headed light and a large buttress are situated to the west of the porch. The south porch has a slated gabled roof, featuring an obtusely pointed, chamfered inner doorway and an acutely pointed outer doorway with a dripstone above. Stone benches flank the doorways. The tower is topped with a saddleback roof, a corbel table running beneath, and gables facing east and west. Each face of the tower has a square-headed louvred light with cross loopholes below. A heavy stringcourse runs around the base of the tower. A later staircase turret adjoins the north side, and is lit by a trefoil-headed lancet with a cross loophole above. The west door has a rounded surround with a two-light, cusped, square-headed window above. The north side of the nave is lit by a cinquefoiled light, accompanied by a square-headed light formerly illuminating the rood loft, positioned above. A trefoil-headed window is located at the west end of the nave. All windows are glazed with lattice glass in pink, green and yellow. A round-headed doorway on the north wall leads to the mural staircase of the rood loft.

The chancel arch is rounded and plain, featuring a pair of corbels indicating the original eaves height of the Norman church. The wagon roof within the chancel dates from the 15th century. A Norman pillar piscina is set into the south wall of the chancel. A notable early 18th-century classical wall monument to the Edwin family is located on the south side of the chancel, displaying fluted pilasters, composite capitals, a semicircular pediment surmounted by putti and a cartouche. The nave features a 19th-century arch-braced roof with curved windbraces connecting the wallplate to the purlins; principal rafters are lodged on large stone corbels. A panelled ceiling covers the eastern end of the nave. On the north wall of the nave are four grotesque heads carved on corbels; the other corbels around the church are embellished with small shields, each bearing a cross. A reset effigy of Griffith Grant (died 1591) is displayed on the north wall of the nave, depicting him with hands elevated in prayer. The church also contains a 19th-century pulpit, organ lectern and pews. A 13th-century font stands on a circular stem to the north side of the nave. The tower arch is a narrow, two-centred arch.

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