Church Of St Michael And All Angels

FORD FORD VILLAGE NT 9437 17/97 Church of St. 21.9.51 Michael and All Angels GV II*

Parish church. C13, extensively restored 1853 by John Dobson. Squared stone; nave has Welsh slate roof, chancel clay tile roof. Nave with aisles, south porch, chancel and north vestry; west bellcote.

Three-bay nave with porch to left. Each bay has pair of lancets; drip moulds with head stops, the detail of 1853. South-west and south-east angle buttresses are medieval; the eastern one has two trefoiled niches. North aisle of 1853.

West projection rising to monumental 2-tier bellcote, with paired lancet bell openings on 1st tier and single lancet above, stone pyramidal roof. Window to north of projection is an original lancet.

Five-bay chancel has C19 lancets with head stops. Three-light Geometric east window.

Interior: early C13 two-bay south arcade has round piers and bases, octagonal capitals and pointed double-chamfered arches; west pier has dogtooth. Octagonal responds, the west respond with a C13 head stop. North arcade and chancel arch by Dobson. West lancet has shouldered rere-arch. Trefoiled piscina in south- east corner of nave. Six medieval grave slabs or parts of slabs set in floor at west end of nave. Elaborate Decorated stone reredos of 1892 by W.S. Hicks. War memorial of c.1920 in coloured marble with ceramic picture of St. George.

Northumberland County History: Volume XI.

Listing NGR: NT9446637402

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 21 August 2017.