Church Of St Michael And Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels in Eastington is an Anglican parish church largely dating to the 14th century, with dedication to St. Mary initially, known as St. Michael's from the 18th century. It is likely built on the site of an earlier church. The nave was reconstructed around 1500, and a south aisle was added in the early 16th century by the Duke of Buckingham. A north porch was built in 1652, a 19th-century vestry was added, and the church was restored in 1851, including the lengthening of the chancel, and again in 1885.

The church is constructed of ashlar, with a stone slate roof featuring coped verges, saddlestones, and cross finials. Its design includes a west tower, a nave with a clerestory and south aisle running the entire length, a north porch, a north transeptal organ chamber, a chancel, and a small north vestry. The three-stage west tower has string courses and clasped buttresses up to the first string course, culminating in an embattled parapet. A square stair tower projects above the parapet on the north side, surmounted by a weathercock believed to be from the 16th century. Small trefoil windows with quatrefoils (glazed to the south and louvred for the belfry on other sides) and single lights are present, as is a three-light west window with reticulated tracery. The south aisle and clerestory windows are largely Perpendicular in style, mainly with three lights. A four-centred archway connects the nave and aisle, featuring a square hoodmould with enriched spandrels bearing carved letters 'SB' for Stafford and Buckingham, and a three-light east window with complex Perpendicular tracery and a hoodmould decorated with angels and shields. A restored three-light chancel east window has an arched hoodmould and an adjoining memorial tablet with cherub’s heads, a swag, and an illegible slate inscription panel, likely dating from the early to mid-18th century. Two three-light Perpendicular windows are positioned between the north porch and transept, effectively creating single windows for the nave and clerestory, with a transom indicating a change in level. The gabled north porch has a chamfered rounded archway.

Inside, a six-bay nave arcade rises to the south with octagonal piers, two of which were restored in 1885 along with an elaborate, semi-pyramidal, painted and compartmented choir ceiling, pulpit, stone choir screen, lectern, and pews. The chancel ceiling is also painted, while the rest of the interior is plain. A Norman tub font stands in the southwest corner. Numerous marble monuments and floor brasses commemorate the Stephens family, former lords of the manor, including a large altar tomb near the font with recumbent figures of Edward Stephens (died 1587) and his wife, each with small heads.