Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11151
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/1966
Date of Amendment
01/03/1995
Name of Property
Parish Church of St Michael
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Talley
Town
Locality
Talley
Easting
263254
Northing
232824
Street Side
Location
Situated in spacious churchyard immediately adjoining the Premonstratensian Abbey ruins.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Parish church dated 1773, replacing that within Abbey ruin. Gothicised 1863 and again in 1876. Chancel added/rebuilt 1892.
Exterior
Anglican Parish Church of 1773. Broad aiseless nave with small narrower chancel. Rubble masonry with squared quoins. Moderately pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves, close verges. Late C19 gabled W bellcote with cross finial. Triple lancet. W window of 1876 above twin pointed doorways. Stone voussoirs to doorways, later planked doors. 3 2-light Decorated windows of 1863 to N and S walls of nave. 1773 date to quoin at SW corner. Blocked window to former gallery at NW corner, cambered head, stone voussoirs. Later lower chancel with Decorated E window. Small partially blocked N chancel window obscured by small rubble lean-to.
Interior
Complete set of 1773 oak box-pews in 3 ranks with fielded panels. Each one numbered, gradated on N side of nave for retainers and Williams family of Edwinsford. Moulded panels to family pew at NE corner of nave. Similar panelling to contemporary pentagonal pulpit. Font, probably late C18, Bathstone octagonal bowl upon pedestal and base. Late C19 detail to chancel. Boarded wagon roof. W gallery removed 1876. Monument to Sir Nicholas Williams of Edwinsford (d 1745). Cartouche over cornice carried on fluted Corinthian pilasters. Apron and pulvinated brackets with acanthus moulding. Coloured E window of 1976 in memory of William John Davies (d 1973).
Reason for designation
A rare survival of C18 furnishings. Listed II* principally for this reason and the setting next to Talley Abbey. Group value with Abbey ruins to S.
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