Church Of St Michael

LITTLE BEDWYN CHURCH STREET SU 26 NE (east end) 2/142 Church of St. Michael (formerly listed as the Parish Church of St Michael) 22.8.66 I Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C15 and C19. Flint with interspersed limestone, slate roof, copper sheet to aisles. Nave, aisles, south porch, west steeple, and chancel with C19 north vestry. C15 South Porch with Tudor arched door and C19 cusped roundel over. Windows all C15; aisles and chancel have 2-light square headed windows with trefoiled ogees and label. Chancel east window of 3-lights. Nave clerestorey also 2-lights with trefoiled heads. Tower of 4-stages, of equal width to nave, offsetting above nave eaves, and having moulded top string. Plain well-proportioned octagonal ashlar broach spire. Bell openings to tower as clerestorey, but narrow single light to ringing floor. Angle buttresses. Gnomon on chancel south-west buttress. Vestry has plate tracery. Interior: Nave of 3-bay arcade, late C12-early C13, possible adaptation of earlier Saxon nave (tall with 600 mm walls). North aisle has short cylindrical columns with capitals of early stiff leaf form similar to Great Bedwyn (q.v.). Two-order semi-circular arches and square billet hoodmould. C17 roof. South aisle similar but taller columns and chamfered pointed arches. East capital with 4 heads and central capital round. Arcade corbelled on east impost. Panelled roofs to aisles. Walls colourwashed. Triple chamfered tower arch, double chamfered chancel arch, latter without interruption. Chancel with C19 patterned tiling and barrel vaulted roof. Two steps to Sanctuary. C19 piscina and cusped stone reredos panel. Fittings: font, C19, by south door. Limestone, octagonal and brass fittings to cover. Pulpit, C19, oak, octagonal on stone base. Sanctuary rails C19. Furniture: Organ, small, by Brygeson Bros, London. Monuments: South Aisle: 2 C19 wall tablets, white marble on slate; 1859, to HENRY ROWLAND of Ramsbury, and 1860, to JANE TROTHOWAN and EDWARD POTTER of Chisbury. Brass war memorial. (Reference Pevsner, Sir N. Buildings of England: Wiltshire.)

Listing NGR: SU2911566203

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