Church Of Saint Michael And All Angels

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SE 74 NW 4/53

SUTTON ON DERWENT, MAIN STREET, Church of Saint Michael and All Angels

(Formerly listed as B1228 (west side))

26.1.67

GV I

Church. C12 nave, C13 chancel, C15 west tower, C15-C16 south porch. Ashlar with slate roofs; possibly some re-used Roman brick to chancel. 3-stage west tower, 4-bay aisled nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel with north chapel. West tower: plinth, diagonal buttresses. Trefoil-headed light under square head to second stage, 2-light trefoil headed belfry openings. Crenellated parapet. External stair projection lit by small oblong windows, to south-east quoin. Pointed west window with reticulated tracery. Nave: three 2-light square-headed windows with ogee tracery; pointed south door with continuous chamfer. Four 2-light square headed clerestory openings. South porch: moulded plinth. Pointed door with moulded capitals and jambs under hood-mould; windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights under triangular head and hood-mould. C19 stone slab roof. Chancel: three 3-light square headed windows. Priests' door under 4-centred arch. 5-light pointed east window under hood-mould, raised coped gable on shaped kneelers, Celtic cross finial. Interior: south porch has bench seats and hollow-chamfered transverse ribs to roof. Nave: double-chamfered tower arch dying into responds. South arcade of cylindrical piers on waterholding bases supporting capitals with lancet leaves, square abaci, and double-chamfered round arches. North arcade: double-chamfered round arches on polygonal abaci, waterleaf capitals, cylindrical piers, and moulded bases. Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch of 1841. Re-set early C12 round arch on chamfered imposts and plain responds to north chapel (rediscovered in 1927). Damaged fragment of early C11 cross showing seated Virgin and Child to one face, beast and interlace ornament to remaining faces. Cable moulding to each arris. C14 octagonal font on splayed octonal foot. Tower chamber contains battered mid-C14 panel depicting Saint George and the Dragon.

Listing NGR: SE7058647307