Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Michael
Whitton, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1992
- Locality
- Discoed
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.27604, -3.06162
- Cadw reference
- 9088
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Occupies an elevated position in the centre of Discoed, to the south of the castle mound.
History
Rebuilt 1869 in restrained lancet style on an ancient site and probably on the old foundations. Discoed was a chapelry of Wigmore Abbey under Presteigne.
Exterior
Coursed sandstone rubble, stone tile roofs, the chancel set lower. West bell turret has pyramid base with conical spire, all slate shingled. Nave with north and south trefoil-headed paired lancets, west end with 2 plain arched lancets and blind quatrefoil in gable. Inset chancel with 3-lancet east window under round arch. North porch has open arcaded timberwork on stone base with stone tile roof, roll-moulded bargeboards and finial. North door with pointed arch.
Enclosed circular churchyard with a number of chest tombs and distinctive square box tombs with ball tops.
Interior
Nave with arch-braced roof, chancel with trussed rafter roof. Ornate partially infilled truss with battlemented tie-beam over the nave/chancel division. Octagonal C13 font on moulded base. Stained glass in east window by O'Connor, London 1869. Early black and red encaustic floor tiles re-used in the nave.
Reason for designation
R Haslam, Buildings of Wales: Powys, 1979, p.229
Nearby in the register
- Upper HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Discoed Castle MoundMotteunder 1 mi
- Yew Tree FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at Yew Treet FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.