Church of St Michael and All Angels

Externally distinctive as one of the few churches to continue the traditional practice of limewashing the stone rubble walls. Concrete tiles imitating stone slates, except for the north slope of the nave which is artificial Welsh slates. Nave with bell turret on west gable, chancel, south porch, north vestry. Small two cell country church with very little that's datable about the exterior. The windows are possibly all Victorian and are not an aid to dating. The nave has a two light Decorated window with cusped heads on the south and a two light one of C17 character on the north. Plain pointed arch with hollow chamfer to west door. Plain bell turret with two bell openings and gabled roof. Small cross on east gable. Gabled south porch with bargeboards, and pointed arch with hollow chamfer. The chancel has a single light window with cusped head on the south and on the north. The east window is a three light Perpendicular one with dripmould over. The smoothness of the gable wall looks as if it were rebuilt at the time of the dated glass in 1889. The east gable is buttressed.

Plain plastered interior with light waggon roofs to both nave and chancel and of such similar character as to suggest strongly that they are contemporary. They rest on moulded wall plates and have narrow ribs with six petal roses as bosses. The west end has a narthex with three pointed arch openings with hollow chamfers. The pews are all late C19 or even 1904, as is the pulpit and probably the font. The pulpit is reached via the vestry through the archway which led originally to the rood stair. The east window in the style of Burne-Jones is dated 1889 and is a memorial to Mary and Margaret Jones. The south window is a memorial to David Walkinshaw, the founder of the Pontypool Free Press, and is dated 1901. There is a memorial to Christopher Cook, incumbent 1851-1926, seventy-five years being the longest incumbency in the history of the Church in Wales.