Church Of St Michael And All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church Of St Michael And All Angels

WRENN ID
ghost-rampart-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Forest of Dean
Country
England
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a building that features a 15th-century tower, with the rest of the church rebuilt between 1867 and 1869 by F.R. Kempson of Hereford for H. Crawshay. The tower is constructed of thin coursed rubble, while the church itself is made of squared red Forest stone with cream ashlar dressings and has a slate roof.

The structure includes a west tower, a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a chancel with a vestry, and a south porch. The tower has two stages, with diagonal corner buttresses, a two-light belfry window featuring stone louvres and no hood mould, and a single-light square-headed window below it. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet and a short spire. The gabled porch has a door with a two-centred pointed head, possibly with later wrought-iron gates, and a circular window above.

The nave features a plinth, a moulded string course at window-sill level, and stone corbels supporting the eaves gutter. To the west of the porch, there is a lancet window, and to the east, there are two two-light plate-tracery windows, all with hood moulds. The gable includes copings and an apex cross, with a square-set buttress below it. The chancel mirrors the nave's design but has a central door at the top of steps and one lancet window on each side. The east wall displays three grouped lancets.

Inside, the nave arcade consists of monolithic columns with carved leaf capitals, and the roofs are open. In the chancel, there is an aumbry from the earlier church on the north side, featuring a cinque-foiled ogee head, and a piscina in the south window sill. An octagonal stone font on a columnar base dates from the rebuilding. The north aisle contains reused 16th-century linen-fold panelled pew ends. Additionally, there are various late 18th-century and early 19th-century monuments in the base of the tower, including a painted board that records a fire that burned down the village in 1699.

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