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
9088
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/03/1992  
Date of Amendment
16/03/1992  
Name of Property
Church of St Michael  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Whitton  
Town
 
Locality
Discoed  
Easting
327664  
Northing
264741  
Street Side
 
Location
Occupies an elevated position in the centre of Discoed, to the south of the castle mound.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Rebuilt 1869 in restrained lancet style on an ancient site and probably on the old foundations. Discoed was a chapelry of Wigmore Abbey under Presteigne.  

Exterior
Coursed sandstone rubble, stone tile roofs, the chancel set lower. West bell turret has pyramid base with conical spire, all slate shingled. Nave with north and south trefoil-headed paired lancets, west end with 2 plain arched lancets and blind quatrefoil in gable. Inset chancel with 3-lancet east window under round arch. North porch has open arcaded timberwork on stone base with stone tile roof, roll-moulded bargeboards and finial. North door with pointed arch. Enclosed circular churchyard with a number of chest tombs and distinctive square box tombs with ball tops.  

Interior
Nave with arch-braced roof, chancel with trussed rafter roof. Ornate partially infilled truss with battlemented tie-beam over the nave/chancel division. Octagonal C13 font on moulded base. Stained glass in east window by O'Connor, London 1869. Early black and red encaustic floor tiles re-used in the nave.  

Reason for designation
R Haslam, Buildings of Wales: Powys, 1979, p.229  

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