Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
8736
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
18/09/1960  
Date of Amendment
09/03/1995  
Name of Property
Church of St Michael  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Painscastle  
Town
 
Locality
Bryngwyn  
Easting
318666  
Northing
249488  
Street Side
 
Location
Elevated site, sub-circular churchyard, reached along by-road running N from Rhosgoch.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
C13, restored 1877 by W Chick of Hereford.  

Exterior
Nave, chancel under lower roof, large south porch, west bellcote with pyramid roof. Rubble stone with plinth and buttresses, artificial tile roof; bellcote has similar tile-hung sides. Set into the south east corner of chancel are two stones with crude carvings of male and female figures. C13 paired lancet with head cut from single block in south wall of chancel and further double lancet next porch. Perp cinquefoil single light in north wall of nave, south wall has square-headed Perp window of three lights with ogee heads and hood mould with head stops, south wall of chancel plain square-headed two-light window with moulded mullion. Other lights C19. Porch roof C15, king-post and arch-braced trusses, quatrefoil windbraces. Also in porch stone benches, sepulchral slab with raised cross, chalice and missal, and memorial tablet of 1724 with framed inscription. South door with pointed arch and Perp mouldings. C19 boarded door with elaborate wrought hinges. Churchyard with numerous chest tombs, three C17 gravestones, one with Latin inscription.  

Interior
Nave roof C19 arch-braced tie-beam trusses; chancel roof has C15 arch-braced trusses and quatrefoil windbraces. C19 pointed chancel arch, C19 furnishings including Godwin's tiled floor. Original south chancel door blocked in 1877, C19 door in north wall. Chancel has trefoil piscina and, reset from churchyard, stone pillar with incised symbols including large cross with ring and dot devices and smaller crosses in the angles. Possibly pre-Christian with the symbols added later or early Christian dating to C7-C9 (upper portion damaged). Octagonal font. Two bells, one early C13, one mid-C16.  

Reason for designation
Included at II* because of medieval fabric, notably the fine church roof, and as the shelter to the remarkable Early Christian pillar-stone.  

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