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St Michael's Church

St Michael's Church History

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St Michael's Church: the first church of St Michael was opened in 1787 and was situated to the west of the Assembly Rooms. It was a small building which had taken twenty years to build and was replaced by a large, cruciform building of 1829-33 by Edward Haycock, of which the west vestry survives roofless, west of the present church.

The existing large and prosperous late-Victorian building is of 1889-90 by R. Nicolson of Hereford, with the west end and tower completed to an altered design in 1905-6 by Nicolson and Hartree. The building is of Yorkshire stone with Bromsgrove dressings and Westmorland green slates, in English Decorated style, old-fashioned for its date and making few concessions to Wales, save in the broad, triple-roofed plan that echoes Tenby and Haverfordwest. The elaborately-carved sedilia, piscina, font and Last Supper reredos are by Boulton and Sons of Cheltenham. The carved oak lectern is by Clarke of Hereford to Nicholson's design. Of the stained glass, the east window and north aisle east window are of 1889, both by A. O. Hemming, and good in the strong colours of Clayton and Bell. The four later south aisle windows are of 1903, also by Hemming. The north aisle window is of 1914 by Powell. W. D. Caroe's chancel screen and rood are of 1921-7. A few of the early-19th-century monuments have been removed to the west porch; the west memorial in the north aisle is by Chantrey.

There seems to have been an inability in Aberystwyth to complete spires. The tower here, completed in 1906, was intended to have a spire. You may recall that Holy Trinity, on the Buarth, was planned to have a spire, and St Winefrede;s Roman Catholic Church, which we will see later, was also to have had one.

Walk through the car park to the Old Vestry

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