St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch

St. Michael 's Church is now disused church in Michael Church, a hamlet in the county of Herefordshire in the West Midlands region of England. Michael Church is located about 8 km west of Ross-on- Wye.

The church is of English Heritage ( Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) classified as construction in Grade II. Even the Churches Conservation Trust cares for the preservation of the Church, which is famous for its dating from the 13th century murals on the north, east and south sides of the interior. The church was built in 1056 according to tradition, by Bischoff Herwald of Llandaff. The three-nave building has a sandstone with a slated roof, the porch is in the south.

Roman altar

A reconstructed mushroom-shaped altar of the Roman period is in the niche of the walled northern entrance portal. It is either dated to the 3rd or 5th century. A poorly preserved inscription can be deciphered:

" [ The God of ] three -way donates Beccicus this altar. "

The altar should have had the function of an image stick apparently earlier. His plate was discovered in 1830 by Rev. John Webb, who found him at a local doctor's house, where he was used as a herbal mortar. Pillar and foundation of the altar Been to its present place in the church and the plate was then placed thereon. A suspected attribution of the altar inscription on an otherwise unused God Tridamus is considered unsafe.

Gallery

View from the south

Panel of the Churches Conservation Trust