Church Of St Michael

EAST GARTON TA 23 NE 4/32 Church of St Michael 16.12.66 I Church. Early C13 west tower, C13 chancel, late C14 south aisle and south chancel chapel, C15 porch. Coursed cobbles with freestone dressings, brick porch. 2-stage west tower, 3-bay nave with south aisle and south porch, 2-bay chancel (probably reduced in length in C19). West tower: double- chamfered plinth, lancets to first stage. Single lancet to belfry, west face. South aisle and south chancel chapel: buttresses with offsets, and 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery under elliptical arches. Round- headed south door with continuous roll and hollow chamfers. South porch: shallow pointed arch on grotesque corbels under hood-mould. 3 blocked lancets to west elevation, Lombard frieze in moulded brick beneath south gable. Chancel: chamfered plinth. Square-headed priests' door with continuous chamfer. C19 east window of 3 lights with tracery in Perpendicular style under hood-mould. Coped gable. Interior: pointed double-chamfered tower arch with moulded imposts on responds with attached columns. South arcade of 3 pointed double-chamfered arches on piers with continuous but displaced mouldings. Late mediaeval screen with open Perpendicular tracery and brattished top rail surmounted by C19 rood and accompanying figures. Double-chamfered pointed arch on grotesque corbels to chancel south chapel. Mid C13 octagonal font with 2 trefoil-headed blank openings to each side. Funeral hatchments to nave north wall and to south aisle south wall. South porch contains re-set mediaeval cross head with Christ displaying stigmata. C19 chancel roof rests on a series of fine moulded plaster corbels, probably mediaeval, of which only 4 of the original 8 now survive. These may themselves be the remnants of those formerly in the nave, as evidenced in an early C19 watercolour at the west end of the church. They are for the most part grotesque heads and masks.

Listing NGR: TA2703935454