St Michael's Church, Llanrug

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Graded II*, notwithstanding its heavily restored exterior, as a medieval church retaining much original fabric; interior has fine C15 roof. History: Medieval nave and chancel, probably C13 and reroofed in C15; shallow north and south transepts added in late C16 or early C17; the whole heavily restored c1904 (the date of the existing window tracery and external cement rendering) with vestry in angle between chancel and south transept; C20 north porch. The gabled west bellcote was erected c1767. Exterior: Simple cruciform plan (see History). Roughcast rubblestone with ashlar window tracery; slate roofs with coped verges. Nave has 2-light bar tracery window with hoodmould and quoins to south wall; also in north wall to east of gabled porch, which has slit windows to sides and boarded door (1985) under closed timber-framed gable. Gabled bellcote with single bell superscribed "GRIFFITH WILLIAMS WILLIAM HOWELL WARDENS 1767" to west wall. Roof has one C20 rooflight in south slope and 2 in north; it is half-hipped where it joins the transepts, which have similar windows to those in nave except that they are taller and the quatrefoils to their heads more elongated. Chancel has broad lancet with trefoil head on north; east window similar but broader still and has quoins and hoodmould. Lean-to vestry on south has blocked doorway to east and blocked rectangular window to south. Interior: North doorway has a plain square-headed opening, in which is set a probably C17 elliptical-arched frame and Victorian door. Main feature of the church is the fine arch-braced roof to the nave comprising 4 collar trusses with chamfered soffits, the foot of the second truss from the west with a carved face on the south; the fourth truss from the west is of single hammerbeam ty

From Cadw under OGL v3.