Church Of St Michael Coslany

TG 2209 SE,TG 2208 NE OAK STREET (east side) 10/587 15/587 26.2.54. Church of St. Michael Coslany. GV I Parish church now disused. Late C14, C15 and early C16. Flint with stone dressings. Ashlar faced north aisle and chapel. Brick. Slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel. North and south aisles. South chancel aisle and north chapel. 4 stage tower C.1425 with diagonal buttresses. West doorway with 2-centre arch having carved spandrels and shield frieze. Good 2-leaf door each with 3 panels of cusped tracery with birds and dragons in mouchettes surmounted by 2 figures. Outer border of crenellated divisions. 4-light Perpendicular window above door with flanking status niches having valuted canopies and finials. 3-light windows in top stages. Crenellated stone parapet with shield frieze and corner pinnacles. 4 bay nave:- 3-light Decorated quatrefoil west window with simple C15 south door to right. 2 bay south aisle and one bay south chancel aisle. Brick west wall to south aisle. 3 4-light Perpendicular aisle windows with 4-centre arches and brattishing on transomes in outer lights. Similar tracery pattern throughout. Flush- work on the south aisle with window and quatrefoil motifs, that on the chancel along with the east window of 1883. The north door has 3 orders of mouldings with central attached shaft and a 4-centre arch with drip- mould. Lancet window in chancel arch gable. 4-shaft piers with double order mouldings in diagonals and 4-centre arches to arcades. Springing of arch only in the west bay of the south arcade coinciding with the brick west wall. Blind store arcading in aisles with attached shafts. Tower arch. Chancel arch without piers. Scissor-brace roof to nave. Flat aisle roofs with arch-braces springing from wall posts. Arch-braced roof to chancel. The braces forming pointed arch profile and springing from wall-posts with shield corbels. Thorp chapel with stone open tracery screen and tomb.

Listing NGR: TG2282808996