Church Of St Michael And All Angels

SP 81 SE HALTON HALTON VILLAGE east side

5/79 Church of St. Michael and All Angels 21.12.67

GV II

Parish Church. 1813 by Henry Rhodes, restored and remodelled 1886-7. Built from squared blocks of sarsen or greyweather stone, probably from near High Wycombe, the joints galletted with pieces of flint. Slate roofs. Simple lancet style, W. tower, with diagonal W. buttresses, small stair turret on S. side, door and 2-light window over on W. side, parapet with broken coping, nave and aisles. S. porch and short chancel. Interior: 4 bay nave, pointed arches with dogtooth ornament on high cylindrical piers with leaf ornament to capitals and square bases also ornamented. Chancel arch on carved corbel heads, hoodmoulds with circular label stops; roof with curved braces and pendants, cusped spandrels, on angel head corbels. Chancel roof coffered and painted with enriched cornice and 3 bosses. Small pointed arched niches each side of tripel lancet E. window. Brass from former church reset on LH side of chancel. Organ in small W. gallery over 3 arched wood screen. C19 marble font has square fluted bowl on spiral stem and carved base.

Listing NGR: SP8744310102