St. Michael, Llanvihangel-Penbedw, Pembrokeshire

S. MICHAEL, LLANVIHANGEL-PENBEDW, PEMBROKESHIRE -This small ruinous church is to be rebuilt by Mr Withers. It has nothing but chancel, nave, a quasi-transept on the north side, and a gabled tower. In the new design we find a chancel with a vestry on its north side, nave, south-western porch, and western tower, the old gabled type being very properly retained. We much like the simple but sterling character of the new work. The arrangements are very good: and the detail is decidedly above the average. The tower battens all the way up from the base to the gabled capping, and has no buttresses or stringcourses. The east window — of three trefoiled lights, with two small trefoiled circles in the head, all within a foliated hood — is well raised up, and there is a plain tile reredos below it. The belfry is reached by a vertical ladder placed within a recess in the tower wall. [Ecclesiologist Feb 1859 Page 71]

Note: ICBS 05496 has plans as built by J C Davies of Cardigan.