St Michael's is set well away from the village on the Moccas Court estate, a fine Adam mansion where you can stay in 5-star comfort. Their website tells us that

The area between the rivers Wye and Usk is a land full of characters from Arthurian Romance and the Grail Quest. Moccas (the name Moccas probably derives from the Welsh Moch-ros, or swine moor) is reputed to be the site of the residence of Llacheu, son of King Arthur. Also there was the abbey of Saint Dubric or Dubricius, the bishop who crowned Arthur.

Dubric was an actual historical figure with a significant local reputation, and Herefordshire churches at Hentland, Whitchurch and Ballingham are dedicated to him. He died in 612 (or so says a life of the saint written at least five hundred years after his death) but 14th November is still named St. Dubricius' Day. This is also the festival of the Celtic pig goddess coincidentally called Moccas, or Mochros.

It was a perfect day to visit with lambs in the fields and a warm spring light raking across the Norman church. Moccas is very nearly a twin to Kilpeck, but without the riot of Romanesque carving. perhaps if the tympana were more legible we would see the connection more clearly. The one pictured below is of the Tree of Life flanked by beasts unusually devouring humans who are reaching for the cross. The Romanesque thought-world can seem very alien to us.

The three-cell structure of the church gives it a fine axial view, with the effigy of a 14th-century knight occupying pole position in the sanctuary ("all depressingly griped-up" as Pevsner puts it). At the opposite west end of the church there is a fine organ-case by Kempe, and in the south windows tracery remains from the mid-fourteenth century, probably Gloucester school work, which also reminds me of the tracery in Ely's Lady Chapel of about the same date.