Church Of St Michael And All Angels, Criggion

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: An unusual ecclesiastical building showing contrasting architectural styles. Graded II* because of surviving internal furnishings, especially C18 pulpit, pews and gallery of 1840. History: Parish church, Diocese of St Asaph, Church in Wales. 1770 for Thomas Eyton, mid C19 chancel, all set in a D -shaped raised churchyard. Exterior: Red brick in Flemish bond, with red sandstone quoins. Slate roof with blue clay ridges between raised stone-coped gables. Chancel of irregular Breidden dolerite, also with sandstone quoins and dressings. Original building comprised rectangular nave and W tower, chancel added 1848. W tower in style of Robert Hooke, round headed W door with raised key stone and springing blocks, circular window to gallery, and round headed window openings to clock and bell stages, the latter with openings on three faces. Original parapet recently replaced by clumsy pyramidal slate roof with wide boxed eaves replacing, in 1966-74, a high crenellated parapet with corner spires. Nave has two large lancets of two chamfered orders, the eastern window on N side replaced by mid-C19 2-light window with quatrefoil head. Chancel of 2 bays with inset corner buttresses, lancet windows linked with bands and moulded string. Triple lancet E window. On N, rectangular brick vestry with slate roof set at right angles, and lean-to boiler house. Both have Romanesque style round-arched doors. Interior: Nave of 3 bays. C19 open rafter roof with king post trusses and double purlins. West gallery, dated 1840, with panelled Gothic front and openwork tracery, supported on two columns and wall brackets. C18 fielded-panelled box pews and matching wall dado towards E. Red tiled floor. Walls plastered. Three steps to raised chancel. Chancel arch on impost columns, sh

From Cadw under OGL v3.