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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Haselbury Plucknett

Somerset

C14, C15, late C19 and C20.

Architectural Features

nave has concrete tile roof behind battlemented parapets between moulded gable copings.

3-light C14 style traceried east window with mid-transome and pointed-arched label with plain stops, with small 2-light Y-traceried vent above

Nave has tall plinth, angled corner and bay buttresses with offsets, string course with gargoyles and battlemented parapets

South porch possibly C15 in part, with angled corner buttresses, coped gable with uncarved projecting block, and shaft-and-hollow outer archway, moulded semi-circular inner arch to doorway having double ogee and hollow moulding.

Tower probably C14, 3 stages

angled corner buttresses 2 stages high, tall plinth, string courses, the upper with gargoyles, battlemented parapets

West door has 4-centred arch with carved spandrils under square label.

to stage 3 are 2-light windows with C14 tracery in hollowed recesses with plain-stop labels, filled with decoratively-pierced stone baffles.

C14 chancel arch

C12 style arches to south and west walls of vestry, the latter possibly original, but the twin shafts now missing from jambs

Nave has acoustic tile ceiling, mostly C19 fittings.

Circular tub font on cylindrical base, of uncertain date, set under the high C14 tower arch

The Hoskins (or Hoskyns) family were significant landowners in 19th Century Somerset: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/eea00536-af1f-439e-98a4-53da62793738.  Pevsner calls the monument "showy".  The arms are per pale gules and azure, a chevron engrailed or, between three lions rampant argent.

Memorials include a tablet on south chancel wall to William Hoskins, died 1760, in black and white marble with open pediment, cartouche of iris and swags

The Hoskins (or Hoskyns) family were significant landowners in 19th Century Somerset: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/eea00536-af1f-439e-98a4-53da62793738. Pevsner calls the monument "showy". The arms are per pale gules and azure, a chevron engrailed or, between three lions rampant argent.

© Bill Harrison

several other C18 and C19 memorials in nave.

those on north side in process of being reglazed in coloured glass to designs by the parishioners.