Church Of St Michael

SU 45 NW ASHMANSWORTH CRUX EASTON 2/18

16.5.66 Church of St Michael

II*

1775, 1894. Aisleless nave, with 3 windows on each side, short chancel with a segmental apse and, C19 porch. The roof with flat above the apse, the brick dentil eaves (and curb to the apse parapet) and the top section of walling suggests a reconstruction of the later date; small timber bell turret at the west end, with a tiled roof. Walling is of red brickwork in Flemish bond, with blue flush panels around the openings and 2 tall panels to the plain chancel walls, header bricks to the apse end. Red rubbed semi-circular arches to the openings, with stepped stone keys and stone impost blocks and aisle, plinth. The west wall is of the later period, with 2 buttresses. Leaded lights, with coloured side panes. The porch has a tiled roof, boarded walls above a brick base, the doorway being transposed from the original which is now a window. Within, the nave ceiling (repaired 1971) is segmental in the nave, and semi-circular in the chancel, meeting the plain walls with a cavetto moulding. The chancel has a panelled dado and on each side of the altar are tall panels (above the continuing dado) enclosed by fluted pilasters and a cornice; the floor is paved in coloured marble. The font (of 2 parts) is C18, of Italian origin, with a white marble bowl with small cherub heads and a sandstone baluster with raised figures. Cl8 oak pulpit.

Listing NGR: SU4247756178