Church Of St Michael

SU 71 NW CLANFIELD SOUTH LANE, Chalton

6/8 Church of St Michael

16.3.54 II*

Parish church. Late C12 or early C13 Early English chancel, nave and western tower, C14 south transept, and C19 north porch. Walls of flint (some plaster work in the chancel) with stone quoins, stepped buttresses to the chancel, brick quoins to the upper part of the tower. Plain tile roof. The plain tower has a low crenellated parapet, a small pyramid roof, and small openings; a wide plain doorway, now filled, was the entrance to the church. The porch has a flint and stone wall, with pierced wooden frame above, supporting a gabled roof with decorative bargeboards. The windows are mostly tall lancets, the south side of the nave having a coupled light with a (plate tracery) trefoil head, the north side a coupled light of the Decorated style with reticulated tracery, repeated in the south window of the transept, in the chancel there is a low-side window beneath a filled lancet and a restored 4-light east window of Geometrical style. Interior: there are deep splays to the windows, and a cill band in the chancel, double trefoil heads to a piscina, and an aumbry cupboard. The arch to the transept has half-columns (responds) of octagonal form, and the octagonal font (C15) is placed there. Wall monuments include a kneeling figure within a Corinthian framework (Richard Ball, died 1632), two other classical monuments, of 1720 and 1829, and small monuments of 1819 and 1933.