Church Of St Michael

SO 54 NW SUTTON CP SUTTON ST MICHAEL

4/80 (5/2C) Church of St Michael

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26.1.67 II*

Former parish church. Mainly C12, restored c1865 and 1909. Sandstone rubble, nave roof has plain tiles with stone cross on eastern verge, chancel roof is stone slate. C17 timber bell-turret with lead sides and slate roof. Two-bay nave, west bell-turret, two-bay chancel, early C20 west porch. Chancel: single-light C12 windows, the two to the south altered into trefoiled ogees in C14. Nave: blocked 2-centred arch, possibly C13, behind the porch, may have been for access to a projected west tower; north-east window has ogee headed wooden 'Y' tracery, probably C18; north-west window has two c1300 trefoil headed lights, between the two is a blocked C12 single light window at a higher level; two south windows also each have two trefoiled lights. Interior: barrel roof, plastered. Chancel arch is round-headed, plastered over and has C18 imposts and key- stone. Two fonts, one C12 with round bowl, cyclindrical stem and four carved lions with emphasis on their fur on the base; the other on the south-east nave window cill, is a small c1645 urn-shaped font with a gadrooned rim supported by a C15 (?) angel holding a book. At the west end of the south wall of the nave, striking monument to Elizabeth Cotton, died 1645; broken pediment supported by barley-sugar columns, inscription under segmental arch flanked by a pair of female figures, semi-reclining cadiver beneath. Corbel head, C14 (?), re-set high up on west wall of nave above C12 font. The parishes of Sutton St Michael and Sutton St Nicholas were united in 1876. (RCHM, Vol II, p 178).

Listing NGR: SO5264845824