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St Michael

St Michael

Averham CP

Nottinghamshire

Herringbone rubble, coursed squared rubble, ashlar, brick, rendered, with plain tile roof and leaded chancel gable.

Architectural Features

West tower, Cll, C13

C15, 2 stages, has chamfered plinth, coved string course, coved eaves band with 8 Romanesque style gargoyles, crenellated parapet with shields in panels and 8 crocketed pinnacles.

To west, C14 double lancet with cusped heads and Decorated tracery, chamfered mullion, chamfered and rebated reveal, and hood mould.

Second stage has 4 C14 double lancet openings with cusped heads, Decorated tracery, coved mullions, chamfered and rebated reveals with hood moulds.

North side has to east 2 C15 restored triple lancets with ogee heads, panel tracery, chamfered mullions, chamfered and rebated reveals with four centred arched heads and hood moulds.

To west, a blocked C15 doorway with coved and roll moulded surround.

To west again, a restored C15 triple lancet with cusped trefoil heads, coved mullions, splayed and rebated reveal with four centred arched head and hood mould with mask stops.

South side has 3 restored C15 triple lancets like those on north side.

Chancel, 2 bays, has to north a C13 double lancet with geometrical tracery, mullion with ringed shaft, chamfered and roll moulded reveal and hood mould with mask stops.

East end has early C14 quintuple lancet with interesecting tracery and ogee quatrefoil head, chamfered mullions, chamfered and rebated reveal and hood mould with mask stops.

To west a restored C15 triple lancet with coved mullions, chamfered and rebated surround and hood mould.

To east, a partly restored C13 triple lancet with geometrical tracery, roll moulded mullions, chamfered reveal and hood mould with mask stops.

Gable has C15 style double lancet with coved reveal and hood mould with mask stops.

South porch, early C16, has 3 string courses, 4 gargoyles, gabled crenellated parapet with cross.

Above again, central pilaster with angel corbel.

Interior has stone benches, and C16 principal rafter roof with moulded timbers and curved braces.

Inner south doorway, C15, has restored double cove and roll moulded surround with C19 painted text.

Aisleless nave has re-set C16 corbels on each side.

East end has to north a C14 depressed ogee headed tomb recess with Sutton rebus and blank shields in spandrels, containing slab with moulded edges, foliate cross and Norman French inscription.

South side has C16 moulded elliptical tomb recess with foliate bosses

Arms in traceried panel in tympanum, containing late C14 slab with male figure.

North side windows have stained glass 1888, c.1905 and c.1913.

South side has stained glass c.1882, and 2 windows with C19 patterned glass and fragments.

Roof, 1865, in C14 style.

Some C16 foliate and mask corbels carrying arched braces to tie beams, and further curved brackets above, all with pierced spandrels.

Tower arch, C13, double chamfered and rebated with hood mould and mask stops, octagonal imposts with moulded bases and mask and monster capitals with foliage.

Tower chamber has west window with patterned stained glass.

Upper tower chamber contains wall paintings.

To south, a C14 cusped trefoil headed piscina.

North window has fragments of C14 stained glass assembled by Rev. J. H. Sutton, 1885.

Reset medieval glass. The lower part is obscured by a wooden backing panel.
Includes pieces discovered in the cellar of nearby Kelham Hall and brought here in 1885.

East window has re-used C15 stained glass from Kelham Hall and C19 stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

Reset medieval glass. The lower part is obscured by a wooden backing panel. Includes pieces discovered in the cellar of nearby Kelham Hall and brought here in 1885.

© Julian P Guffogg

South windows have early C19 stained glass fragments and patterned C19 stained glass.

C19 octagonal traceried panelled pulpit.

Small C19 octagonal font on octagonal base and stem, with crocketed pierced spire cover.

2 C14 traceried panelled oak stalls.

2 C18 stools and C17 table with bulbous turned legs and low stretchers.

Monuments include painted alabaster Renaissance Revival style tomb of Sir W. Sutton and wife, 1607.

Above, a pair of Ionic type columns on strapwork bases, carrying projecting entablature with strapwork frieze, Arms and dentillated cornice, flanking a pair of reclining figures.

Large marble and alabaster wall monument to Lord Lexington, 1668.

Classical style wall monument marble and slate, with shaped surround, pedimented inscribed tablet, cornice with flanking urns, and obelisk with cartouche.

C18 carved and painted Royal Arms, 2 metal commandment boards, commemorative brasses 1858, 1865, 1901, 1907.

2 hatchments, 2 C20 brasses.

Traceried timber war memorial 1918, and wood tablet, 1945.