Church of St Michael and All Angels, Gwernesney

Church of St Michael and All Angels, Gwernesney

Church of St Michael and All Angels
51°42′43″N 2°50′54″W / 51.7119°N 2.8483°W / 51.7119; -2.8483Coordinates: 51°42′43″N 2°50′54″W / 51.7119°N 2.8483°W / 51.7119; -2.8483
Country Wales
Denomination Church in Wales
Architecture
Status Grade I listed
Style Perdendicular
Administration
Diocese Monmouth

The Church of St St Michael and All Angels, is the parish church of Gwernesney, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is a Grade I listed building.[1]

History and architecture

The church is thirteenth century in origin but with much fifteenth century work.[2] The double bell gable, and more, was restored in 1853–4 by John Pollard Seddon.[3] It is of Old Red Sandstone.[3]

The interior contains a late medieval screen, "of particular interest."[2] The church register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1758 and that of marriages from 1757.[4]

Services are held on the second Sunday of the month at 10.30am.

Notes

  1. Good Stuff IT Services (1980-11-18). "Church of St Michael and All Angels – Llantrisant Fawr – Monmouthshire – Wales". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. 1 2 "ST MICHAEL, GWERNESNEY | Site Details". Coflein. 2003-09-17. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  3. 1 2 The Buildings of Wales:Gwent/Monmouthshire, page 247
  4. "KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF MONMOUTHSHIRE, 1901". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

References

Newman, John (2002). Gwent/Monmouthshire. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-300-09630-9.

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