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Church of St Michael

A Grade II* Listed Building in Devauden, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7129 / 51°42'46"N

Longitude: -2.7772 / 2°46'37"W

OS Eastings: 346399

OS Northings: 201858

OS Grid: SO463018

Mapcode National: GBR JH.364X

Mapcode Global: VH79X.T65R

Plus Code: 9C3VP67F+54

Entry Name: Church of St Michael

Listing Date: 19 August 1955

Last Amended: 8 September 2000

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2020

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Tor-y-mynydd

ID on this website: 300002020

Location: Approached by a lane running south from the road between Raglan and Cobbler's Plain and about 300m from it.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Chepstow

Community: Devauden

Community: Devauden

Locality: Llanvihangel-tor-y-mynydd

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Church building Gothic architecture

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History

The internal batter to the walls suggests an early date, perhaps early C14, but none of the features indicate a date earlier than the late C15. The nave roof and the porch seem to be C16. The south east nave window seems C17. The church was restored in 1854 by J Prichard and J P Seddon; and in 1908, and these restorations seem to involve the east and west windows, the north windows of the nave, the bellcote and the porch roof The parish was merged with Llangunnog (church now demolished) in 1902. The first rector was recorded in 1307 and the parish register commences in 1594.

Exterior

The church is built from local coarse and fine-grained red and grey sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, but the porch has stone slates. It consists of nave, separate chancel, west bellcote and south porch. The nave has two windows on the north wall, a 2-light and a 3-light, with cusped heads to the lights, both are Victorian. The south wall has a small slit window to the left of the porch and a larger one on the right. The west gable has a pointed arch doorway with unusual bar-and-fleur-de-lys stops, plank door and a single light cusped head window above. Coped gables, the west gable has a 2-light bellcote with pointed arches and a steeply pitched gable above, east gable with stepped Victorian buttresses and apex cross. Gabled south porch with late C16 entrance arch, coped gable and cross above. The inner door has a hollow chamfer with pyramid-and-pumpkin stops, original four plank door. The chancel has a blind north wall with a small lean-to vestry of corrugated iron. The south wall has a priest's door with 2-centred head and hollow chamfer, plank door and a 2-light window with dripmould over. Perpendicular east window of 2-lights with continuous central mullion, cusped lower lights and paired lights with trefoil heads above. The churchyard contains mostly C19 memorials including a chest tomb to Susan Williams, died 1824; and a Victorian railed tomb. There are also two semi-buried steps of a medieval cross.

Interior

The interior is plastered and painted. The nave walls and the south wall of the chancel have an internal batter. The chancel arch has plastered piers and a semicircular arch of small cut stones. This matches the arch of the chancel roof and may be an alteration to suit that, possibly in the C15. The chancel roof is of close set arch braced collar trusses, the nave has a C16 waggon roof with narrow ribs and plaster panels. Early C18 turned baluster communion rails. Victorian benches and pulpit, altar dated 1862? Good leger stones in the chancel.

Reasons for Listing

Included at II* as an attractive and well preserved medieval church.

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  • II Church Farmhouse
    About 50m east of the Church of St Michael.
  • II Ty Mawr, Llanvihangel Tor-y-Mynydd
    About 2 Km NW of Devauden; to the W and below the Devauden to Monmouth road, reached via minor road and track.
  • II Privy of Cottage
    Immediately to the west of the cottage.
  • II Cottage
    At the south west corner of Trellech Community about 500m south west of the Church of St Dennis at Llanishen and approached down a lane off the Chepstow Road (B4293).
  • II Duffryn Farmhouse
    In the far north west of Devauden Community approached by a track off the north side of the Raglan Road about equidistant between Llanishen and the Church of St Michael, Llanvihangel-tor-y-mynydd.
  • II* Barn with stable and granary at Cwrt-y-Brychan
    Situated just E of Cwrt-y-Brychan across yard.
  • II Cwrt y Brychan
    Situated down drive of about 1 km running S from road about 1 km E of Llansoy.

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