Church of St Michael

The entrance porch under the tower is seated both sides, and narrows to a ribbed vaulted passage to the main door, and with a shouldered door on the left. Ecclesiological interior, of snecked ashlar, nave and aisles, with a 4-bay arcade on stiff leaf decorated columns of banded red and cream stone, the arches pointed and similarly coloured, with a red outer band. Steep scissor-braced uniform scantling roof with inward leaning ashlars and a brattished cornice. Steeply pointed chancel arch carried on corbels with short polished marble shafts set on bishop and prince head corbels. The chancel is raised 2 steps, with a further 3 to the high altar. Open roof of 4 bays, the trusses carried down to wall corbels. Trefoil-headed door to the N vestry and a narrow arch to the organ chamber. Stone reredos of 1879: central gabled aedicule flanked by sculpted heads in sunk quatrefoils and a corbelled shelf below.

Glass: In the E window, St Michael etc by Morris & Co, to designs by Burne-Jones and Morris, also the 2 south windows. Fittings: Sanctuary rail of square section on brass plated foliated stanchions. Pulpit: a drum articulated with trefoil arches on red marble columns.

Lectern: a free-standing brass eagle of 1858.

Font, near the W end, a circular bowl supported by 4 sturdy columns with lead capitals. On the N side, at the W end of the aisle, a fine oval streaked marble font basin of 1791, the gift of Rich' Edmunds, brought from the old church and mounted on a splayed octagonal shaft. Reading desk of the choir stalls is carved with a running ivy-leaf scroll. In the tower, 3 bells, one from the old church, and two added c.1890.

Monuments: In S aisle (a) White tablet shield with margin, to Col Robt Harun, d.1896, by E M Lander of Kensal Green. (b) White tablet to Ann Morris and others, of the Gaer, d.1894-1909. In the N aisle, (c) a small brass, to Margaret Jacks of Stubb, d.1784, by W Rider, the sundial maker. In the nave (d) a brass commemorating the new heating apparatus, donated by Edmunds of Edderton Hall, 1917. In the porch, (e) a marble scroll on black, to Capt Richard Campbell d.1869 and Col. Hugh Morrieson, d.1832, and, unfixed, two unusual round-headed oak head boards, one of 1821. A late C18 Royal Arms has been placed in the Powysland Museum.

Built of local stone rubble with red Grinshill and cream Minera dressings. Nave with N and S aisles, chancel with lean-to vestry on the N, and SW tower. Early Decorated style characterised by geometric tracery including; bold double lancets with an oculus in the head, under a heavy hood moulding. Three light E and W windows with foiled roundels; coped gables with a stone terminal cross. The tower is attached to the S aisle at the W end, of 3 stages, defined by string courses. Small pyramidal roof of slate with a wind vane and gilded weathercock; the planned spire was never built. The main door, under the tower, has a moulded 2-centred arch on boldly carved stiff-leaf capitals to igneous rock shafts, all enclosed with a triangular gabled string, the stones of which are joggled. At the E end of the aisles, both sides, a 3-light window rises to a coped gable flush with the aisle face. The windows all have plain leaded plate glass, now with external polycarbonate sheeting.