Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 June 1977. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
lone-jamb-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 June 1977
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Small Gothic Revival parish church in early Decorated style. Built of coursed and snecked tooled grey and red sandstone with pale ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with corbel table and cruciform finials. Plan of nave with W bellcote, S porch, lower narrower chancel, large NE vestry with and later hall wing. W window is large, of 4 lights with Geometric roundel tracery and face stops to roll-moulded hood. Bellcote of ashlar has steeply pitched gabled hood over a double-arched opening with only one bell. S nave has three 2-light windows with trefoil tracery and roll moulding. Porch has steep-pitched gabled roof, battered walls and moulded doorway. Chancel has E window of 3 lights with Geometric tracery and small SE window of paired lights in a square-headed surround. N nave has buttress with offsets to eaves level and similar window; vestry with single pitched roof has simple paired lights and shouldered doorway at E.

Interior is rendered with some exposed ashlar dressings. Barrel roof with moulded ridge beam and boarded ceiling. Unusual N doorway with blind arches and trefoil. War Memorial to men of Tongwynlais on N wall; very plain cylindrical pulpit and font. Wide moulded pointed chancel arch with gilded capitals and head stops; finely carved chancel screen in Perpendicular style. Plain panelled chancel, sanctuary and choir stalls; boarded ceiling of 4 bays with painted ribs and pendant metal cross; panelled altar and reredos incorporating shields; wrought iron altar rails.

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