Church of St Michael and All Angels

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ST33NW 8/5

BAWDRIP CP CHURCH ROAD (west side) Church of St Michael and All Angels

29.3.63

GV II*

Anglican parish church. Predominantly late C13 early C14, extensively restored 1866. Squared, and coursed and squared rubble, rough-dressed quoins, tile roofs, crested ridges, coped verges, cruciform finials. Decorated and neo-Decorated style. Nave, chancel, crossing tower, north and south transepts, south porch, small C19 lean-to vestry by the porch. The tower plain and unbuttressed, embattled, string at bell-chamber stage and below the parapet, gargoyles; single light bell chamber windows with louvres, below two blocked two-light windows with tracery and two single light openings with foiled heads, each with leaded lights; clock. Two bay nave, two bay chancel, single bay transepts, windows with curvilinear tracery, much renewed, labels with carved heads as stops. Square head three-light north and south windows to chancel as well as the three-light pointed head east window are Perpendicular. Gabled porch, benched interior on a flagstone floor.

Interior scraped on flagstone floors. C19 roofs. The crossing with arches of two orders supported by corbels carved as heads, these in turn supported on massive lias piers pierced by squints to chancel and through way between nave and north transept; above a cantilevered stone staircase which gives access to ringing chamber reached by an external doorway. Chancel with aumbry, sedila, and piscina; piscinae to transepts, that to south particularly fine. C17 coffin stool. C18 chair. C19 pulpit, pews, font, organ and stone reredos. North transept with recumbent effigy of Sir Simon de Bradney, in armour, obit. 1375, foiled canopy with pierced cusping and four carved heads. C17 memorial behind the altar with Latin text. Five late C18 early C19 wall monuments. C19 and early C20 stained glass. Four early bells. (Faculty deposited SRO pertaining to 1866 restoration; Church Guide).

Listing NGR: ST3414639586