Church Of St Michael

SOLLERS HOPE CP - SO 63 SW 2/55 Church of St Michael 25.2.66 GV II* Parish church. C14, C19 restoration with addition of north vestry and bell turret in 1887. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, C20 tiled roof, C19 timber-framed bell turret with shingle cladding to squat spire. Nave with bell turret and south porch, chancel and north vestry. Nave: two trefoil-headed lights with tracery and hoodmould to right of gabled south porch, outer archway with responds, outer moulded order, inner chamfered. Chancel: two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil to window to right of blocked chancel doorway. Interior: RCHM mentions C14 date for chancel and nave roofs; moulded and embattled wall-plates, trussed rafter roofs. Chancel arch: two chamfered orders, 2-centred arched head. Fittings: font: plain cylindrical bowl on C20 base, possibly C13. Monuments: coffin lid, possibly C13, in chancel, tapering slab with decorative cross in roundel and male figure in military dress. Three other coffin lids in west wall of nave, C13 and C14. (RCHM Vol II, p 169).

Listing NGR: SO6124933118