Church Of St Michael

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12/75 Church of St. Michael

21.9.51 GV 11*

Parish church. Tower Cll and C13. Arcades C13 and C14. Aisles rebuilt 1879. Chancel rebuilt mid C19. Dressed stone, Welsh slate roof. West tower, nave, south porch, chancel and vestry. Unbuttressed broad, square, west tower. Small C12 window in lower stage, paired lancets in bell stage. Plain parapet. 4-bay nave with lancets;2-bay chancel. East end has 3 stepped lancets with shafts and shaft rings.

Interior: C11 unmoulded tower arch on plain imposts. 3-bay north and south arcades have octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals and double-chamfered arches, those on south side with fleurs de lys at the point of springing. Plain west responds look C11 but with semi-octagonal bases so may be later rebuilding. To east of arcades are stretches of solid wall with concave cornices round 3 sides, and then another bay with similar octagonal responds and arches whose capitals are of C14 type. C14 chancel arch. Lower half of C14 monument to a priest built into chancel north wall. Octagonal font with heraldic panels, leaf forms, geometric patterns and the date, March 11th 1662.

Listing NGR: NU0193616303