Church of St Michael the Archangel is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 September 2004. A Victorian Church.

Church of St Michael the Archangel

WRENN ID
old-frieze-scarlet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 September 2004
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael the Archangel is a Grade II* listed building constructed from local lias limestone rubble, featuring dressed ashlar quoins and details, topped with Welsh slate roofs. The church includes a nave with a bellcote, a chancel, a south porch, and a south chapel, which now serves as a vestry. Much of the exterior has a Victorian character, particularly the west gable wall, which is fully Victorian. This wall features buttresses with offsets, two lancet windows with cusped heads and dripmoulds, and a quatrefoil above. The gable is topped with a double gabled bellcote, each gable adorned with a cross. The south wall of the nave has a lancet window and a plain gabled porch, while the south chapel has a lancet on each wall and a three-light Decorated window in the gable. The chancel, which is slightly lower than the coped east gable of the nave, includes a pointed arch priest's door flanked by lancets on the south wall, a two-light Decorated window with cusped lights and a wheel head in the east gable, and a blind north wall with an attached Victorian chimney. The north wall of the nave features an offset buttress at the east end and two paired lancets.

Inside, the church is plastered and painted, with some stone features exposed. The chancel arch and the arches of the south chapel are Victorian rebuilds. The nave has a three-bay roof from the 15th century, which has been repaired and boarded in the Victorian period, featuring arched braced collar trusses with three tiers of curved windbraces. The area above the Rood screen is ceiled, and the collar purlin has carved bosses. The chancel has a similar two-bay roof, all open. The church furniture is entirely Victorian, and the font is a square late 13th-century piece on a circular stem. The windows were made by Clayton and Bell. Notable interior elements include a fine early 14th-century monument in a colonnetted niche in the south chapel dedicated to Joan le Fleming, and a monument to Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg, a stonemason, bard, and antiquary who died in 1826) erected in 1858. The interior of the chapel was not seen during the resurvey.

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