An "historic medieval church at the heart” of a Ceredigion village has been shortlisted for a £10,000 grant.

St Michael’s and All Angels in Llanfihangel y Creuddyn has been shortlisted for the grant from the National Churches Trust.

Over the past few years a church and community group has established the Llanfihangel y Creuddyn church and heritage project to raise money for “repairs and improvements to the historic medieval church at the heart of the village”.

Local resident and archaeologist Louise Barker said: “St Michael’s is a hugely significant church in Wales.

“It dates to the 1200s and underwent an ambitious building programme to reroof the church and refit the tower around 1500.

“Evidence for all this survives, and it is therefore one of the very few complete medieval churches of cruciform plan with a central tower in Wales.”

The project has received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the National Churches Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and Ceredigion County Council.

Conservation work began earlier this year and is due to be completed in 2022.

Repairs will address serious damp problems by stopping water ingress through the tower into the church.

The work will also include the installation of a new stairway enabling safe public access up the remarkable medieval tower to the ancient belfry.

Each year the National Churches Trust invites churches to whom they have already awarded a grant to let them know if they still need additional funding in order to complete their project and St Michael’s is one of four churches that have been selected for the Friends’ Vote in 2021. It is the only one in Wales.

Manager of the project Peter Garson said: “Work has started on our project and is due to be completed in 2022, but we found that when work started, we needed to do much more repair work to the floor beams in the tower as most had rotted where their ends have sat in the damp wall for centuries.

“This essential work has used up all our contingency funds and more and so threatens our ability to fund some of the other project work.

“Therefore the National Churches Friends Grant would help us complete the repair work and welcome people to experience the medieval tower.”

The vote is open to the Friends of the National Churches Trust until 10 September.

Votes can be cast via the Trust website, where more information including a short film about the and heritage project can be viewed at www.nationalchurchestrust.org/take-part-friends-vote-2021

There will be an information drop-in session at the church for the public on the afternoon of Sunday, 29 August.

You can also find out more by following the project Facebook page @EglwysLlanfihangelyCreuddynChurch.