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Brief
description
St Michael and All Angels is a small
church of wholly Victorian (and perhaps
later) date located some 15km south-west
of Knighton. It is undistinguished
architecturally and internally its main
pre-19thC fittings are a medieval font and
a small group of monuments. The churchyard
is polygonal and shows no sign of early
modification.
Whole building re-erected, though at
two different times, in the 19thC. New
masonry used, though the Victorian lancets
may echo earlier fenestration.
Parts of the following description are
quoted from the 1979 publication The
Buildings of Wales: Powys by Richard
Haslam
Short
history of the present church and the known loss of west
gallery furniture
The origin and early development of
this church are unknown. No medieval
references to its existence have been
encountered.
Nothing of the medieval church
survives.
The west tower was reportedly rebuilt
in its entirety by B. Wishlade in 1838;
The nave and chancel were
rebuilt by S. W. Williams in 1891. Among
features to disappear in 1891 were the
gallery that once covered a third of the
chancel, a barrel organ and square pews.
A faculty with accompanying
specification dated to 1906 refers to
pulling down the tower, some of the wall
between the tower and the nave, inserting
a new doorway, re-using selected tower
stone, excavating drains, re-slating the
roof, inserting new window sills and
putting a new door in the vestry. It is
not clear how many (if any) of these
proposals were adopted and no other
reference has been found to them.
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