Church Of St Michael And All Angels

POULTON CRICKLADE STREET SP 00 SE (west side) 4/85 Church of St. Michael and All Angels 26.11.58 II Anglican church. 1873 by William Butterfield. Coursed rubble stone with freestone dressings, on plinth, sprocketed stone slate roof with artificial stone slate to north side, coped east gable with cross finial. Large nave with bellcote and south porch at west end, north aisle, chancel. Early English style with cusped lancets of one, two or three lights. Tiered bellcote with 3 bells, side buttresses with offsets and saddleback roof with weathervane. Five-bay arcade on north side, one bay in chancel, 4 to nave, with western bay having smaller arch. Faceted rafter roof. Small square 2-light windows to north aisle. Plain splayed reveals to nave windows except that nearest chancel on south side which has cinquefoiled rere-arch and jamb shafts on corbel heads. Similar east window to chancel, and all chancel windows with cinquefoiled rere-arches. Encaustic tiles and reredos by Butterfield remain. (David Verey, Buildings of England - Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1979).)

Listing NGR: SP0989400705