Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 August 2000. Church.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- dusted-alcove-vetch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2000
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beddau, Pontypridd, Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- ST 059 849
- Coordinates
- 51.55554, -3.35732
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building featuring a nave and chancel combined into one structure, with a raised eastern end, a south porch, and a north porch. The church is rendered and whitened, topped with slate roofs. The raised section has a pitched roof and is slate hung on the west side. The structure steps up four times, culminating in a narrow eastern gable end. It has a two-tier plinth, which becomes three tiers at the heightened section and one tier at the porches.
The west end features angle pilasters and a raised central section, which includes a gabled doorcase of the same width. This doorcase contains a doorway with a triangular head and three orders of angular mouldings that house double planked doors. Above the doorway is a circular 'Star of David' window, with a recessed cross in the gable. Flanking the doorcase are narrow windows with five vertically-aligned panes. The south side of the church has a gabled porch offset to the right, with an angle buttress behind it and to the left. The porch features a doorway with a triangular head and two orders of angular mouldings that contain a planked door, with an incised cross above the doorway. There are small pentagonal windows in the side walls of the porch. To the left of the porch are three pentagonal windows, and to the right is a star-shaped window. Each of the four faces of the heightened eastern section has a narrow light, three panes high, stepping up towards the east. The eastern end has a circular 'Star of David' window and a recessed cross above. The north side mirrors the south side, except that a bell is fixed to the wall between the central and right pentagonal windows, and there is no buttress behind the porch.
Inside, the nave and chancel have a panelled ceiling divided into five canted sections, with the ceiling raised above the altar and light entering from the sides. The doorways feature triangular heads. There are two steps leading up to the chancel, with an octagonal stone pulpit on the left that has recessed panels, and a pipe organ on the right. The panelled choir stalls are in a modern style, and the altar, also in the same style as the pulpit, is located behind a metal rail. A small octagonal stone font is situated at the west end. The chancel has stained glass in the star-shaped windows, both memorials from the 1990s, depicting fruit and foliage to the north and a dove to the south.
Local climate
Church of St Michael and All Angels sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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