Church Of Saint Michael

SKIDBY MAIN STREET TA 03 SW (south side) 7/99 Church of Saint Michael 7.2.63 - II *

Church. C12 origins, early C13 nave, C14 chancel, C19 west tower of 1827 (on earlier foundations) and south porch. Coursed squared rubble, with brick patching, brick to early C19 additions, graduated slate roofs. 2-stage west tower, 3-bay nave with north aisle and south porch, 2-bay chancel. West tower: stone base and battered brick sides up to belfry stage: band, round-headed belfry openings, low parapet with corner pinnacles. Nave: two 2-light square-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery to the west: one 3-light square-headed window with Decorated tracery to east. Pointed south door to nave (with keystone) and south porch with pointed brick arch and tumbled gable. Nave north side: 2-light square- headed window with Perpendicular tracery to west, 3-light square-headed window with Perpendicular tracery to east. Chancel: 2 trefoil-headed lancets flanking an ogee-headed priests' door. 3-light pointed east window with cusped intersecting tracery under a hoodmould with face stops. Low side lancet to west end of north wall. Interior: plain, rendered and colour-washed. The north arcade has been removed. Nave south wall: 2 niches, one a small lancet, the other a larger 4-centred opening. East wall of the north aisle: 2 further niches with 4-centred arches. Chancel: a trefoil-headed niche at the west end of the south wall, and an ogee-headed piscina at the east end.

Listing NGR: TA0150833658