Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1955. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
stony-pavement-nettle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 August 1955
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Michael, Llanvihangel-Tor-Y-Mynydd, Chepstow, Devauden
OS grid reference
SO 463 018
Coordinates
51.71288, -2.77722
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building constructed from local coarse and fine-grained red and grey sandstone, topped with a Welsh slate roof, while the porch features stone slates. The church comprises a nave, a separate chancel, a west bellcote, and a south porch. The nave includes two Victorian windows on the north wall, a 2-light and a 3-light, both with cusped heads. On the south wall, there is a small slit window to the left of the porch and a larger window on the right. The west gable displays a pointed arch doorway adorned with unusual bar-and-fleur-de-lys stops, a plank door, and a single light cusped head window above. The gables are coped, with the west gable featuring a 2-light bellcote with pointed arches and a steeply pitched gable above, while the east gable has stepped Victorian buttresses and an apex cross. The gabled south porch has a late 16th-century entrance arch, a coped gable, and a cross above. The inner door features a hollow chamfer with pyramid-and-pumpkin stops and is an original four plank door. The chancel has a blind north wall with a small lean-to vestry made of corrugated iron. The south wall includes a priest's door with a 2-centred head and hollow chamfer, a plank door, and a 2-light window with a dripmould above. The east window is in the Perpendicular style, featuring 2-lights with a continuous central mullion, cusped lower lights, and paired lights with trefoil heads above. The churchyard is mostly filled with 19th-century memorials, including a chest tomb for Susan Williams, who died in 1824, and a Victorian railed tomb. There are also two semi-buried steps of a medieval cross.

Inside, the church is plastered and painted, with the nave walls and the chancel's south wall showing an internal batter. The chancel arch features plastered piers and a semicircular arch made of small cut stones, matching the arch of the chancel roof, which may have been altered in the 15th century. The chancel roof consists of closely set arch-braced collar trusses, while the nave has a 16th-century waggon roof with narrow ribs and plaster panels. The communion rails are early 18th-century with turned balusters, and there are Victorian benches and a pulpit, along with an altar dated to around 1862. The chancel also contains good ledger stones.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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