The church of St Michael and All Angels joined the parish group in 2024. Sitting in the centre of Clyro, with a tall tower, and surrounded by a large, walled graveyard, it is an unmissable feature of the village.

The present building dates from 1852/53, except for the base of the tower which belongs to the older mediaeval church that it replaced. Thomas Nicholson of Hereford was commissioned to draw the plans: the chancel was to be rebuilt on its old foundations but the main body of the church was to be enlarged with the addition of a north aisle. 800 people attended the opening ceremony on 6th July 1853.

The interior is relatively simple with a gothic arch separating the nave and chancel, and box pews for the congregation. Marble memorials, saved from the mediaeval church, are mounted on the walls of the north aisle and there are a number of commemorative stained-glass windows. Members of the Baskerville family, landowners of Clyro Court, feature prominently. The tower has a set of five bells, two of them dating back to the medieval church, the other three cast in 1887 and first rung to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. The bells are still in use, but badly in need of repair.

Today, Clyro and its church are best known for the diaries of Rev. Francis Kilvert, who was curate in the parish from 1865-1872. A young man, not long down from Oxford and without private money, Kilvert lodged with Mrs Challoner at Ashbrook House opposite the lych gate. On New Year’s Day 1870 he walked into Hay, purchased a notebook, and began to record his daily life: parish duties; tramps through the snow to visit the sick; the poverty and the kindnesses; croquet parties with the ladies in Hay. (Kilvert’s Diary 1870-1879, Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, Vintage Classics).

For times of services at St Michael’s and All Angels, see the ‘Calendar of Services’ on this website.