St Michael, Penbryn
St Michael, Penbryn
St Michael’s Church stands in a circular hillside churchyard west of the Hoffnant valley, about half a kilometre inland from Penbryn beach in Ceredigion. It is Grade I listed for an outstanding medieval roof.
- Location
- Penbryn, Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Ceredigion
- City / town
- Penbryn
- Address
- Penbryn, Ceredigion, SA44 6QL
- Postcode
- SA44 6QL
- Built
- 12th century; roof 15th century
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- St Davids
- Parish
- Penbryn
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval
- Materials
- Rubble stone, slate roof
- Grid reference
- SN 293 521
- Opening hours
- Open everyday.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
The Church in Wales regards the building as of twelfth-century origin on an earlier Christian site, among the oldest churches in the Diocese of St Davids. The porch is probably early seventeenth century; windows were inserted in the early nineteenth century and altered in an 1887 restoration by D. Davies of Penrhiwllan. A further restoration of 1957 is associated with A. D. R. Caroe. The interior is whitewashed, with slate floors, a medieval square font, and a thirteenth-century piscina. Cadw grades the church I for the fifteenth-century roof, one of only two of its type in south-west Wales (the other at Mwnt). The novelist Allen Raine is buried in the churchyard.