St Michael & All Angels, Llanfihangel y Creuddyn
St Michael & All Angels, Llanfihangel y Creuddyn
St Michael’s is a Grade II* Church in Wales parish church in the centre of Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, Ceredigion, a largely unaltered medieval cruciform church with a central tower, in the Diocese of St Davids.
- Location
- Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Ceredigion
- City / town
- Llanfihangel y Creuddyn
- Address
- Llanfihangel y Creuddyn, Ceredigion, SY23 4LA
- Postcode
- SY23 4LA
- Built
- 14th–15th century; repaired 1835; restored 1870–74; roofs repaired 1931
- Architect
- R. K. Penson and A. K. Ritchie (1870–74); W. D. Caröe (1931 roofs)
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- St Davids
- Parish
- Llanfihangel y Creuddyn
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Medieval cruciform with central tower
- Materials
- Rubble stone with slate roofs; red sandstone mullion windows
- Grid reference
- SN 665 760
- Opening hours
- The church is free to visit and is open at week-ends throughout the year and every day between Easter and October. Tower Tours are held on certain dates (£5/person) or by arrangement for special interest groups.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Cadw lists a medieval church of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries with fine surviving fifteenth-century roofs, first noted in 1254 as Llanfihangel Gelynrhud. The plan is cruciform, with a large square crossing tower, relatively low nave, chancel and transepts, a south porch and a north-east vestry. Walls are rubble stone with slate eaves roofs. Windows are generally plain square-headed two-light mullions in red sandstone. The tower is tall and plain, with vent loops, cambered-headed bell-openings and an embattled parapet; a short octagonal nineteenth-century spire has fishscale slating.
Repairs of 1835 are said to have lowered the crossing tower by six feet, though a fifteenth-century bell frame remains. The north transept was rebuilt in 1846. R. K. Penson estimated restoration at £910 in 1870; work appears finished by 1874, when A. K. Ritchie signed the completion form. W. D. Caröe repaired the roofs in 1931. The interior is plastered, with fifteenth-century oak panelled roofs to nave, transepts and chancel. Most fittings are of 1870–74 by Penson. A carved oak reredos of 1919 by Jules Bernaerts depicts the Last Supper. Coflein calls it the best of three surviving cruciform churches with central towers in Ceredigion.