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St. Michael and All Angels

St. Michael And All Angels

Felton

Northumberland

Approximate sequence: Nave-and-chancel church of c.1200 with small west tower or belfry, and perhaps transepts

Architectural Features

south porch then south-west chapel added in later C13

aisles early C14 incorporating earlier porch and chapel

present porch c.1400, later truncated

nave roof reduced in pitch and belfry rebuilt C16 or C17

To west a C19 two-light window with the head of older lancet above and flower-carved stone to right.

South arcade is made up of double-chamfered west arch on semicircular responds (perhaps re-set), a length of c.1200 nave wall with the original south doorway, chamfered arch on shafted jambs (inner order cut away) with tall round-headed rear arch, and two broad eastern arches similar in detail to north arcade.

To east of original doorway a small carved recess probably for stoup

Monuments: In north aisle broken C14 priest's slab with high-relief figure and Lombardic marginal inscription.

Alexander Davison of Swarland Park d. 1829 with carved canopied niche.

Octagonal font, probably C14 but re-tooled.

One medieval bell inscribed AVE.M/RIA.GRACIA.PLENA

second, uninscribed, probably 1674.