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St Michael

St Michael

Blackford

Somerset

C11 or C12 in origin, reshaped in C14

Architectural Features

C15, some C19 restoration.

east window 3-light C14 traceried in hollow-chamfered pointed arched reveal, with arched label having curl stops

inside bench seats and a C11/C12 inner arch with chevron

lozenge decorated outer arch, and possibly C15/C16 cambered sub-arch, with door of about same date

Tower in two stages, the lower occupying 3/4 total height: no plinth, but string courses and battlemented parapets with simple carved corner pinnacles, angled corner buttresses to half or lower stage: west doorway possibly C13, a chamfered pointed arched doorway with simple moulded label and figurehead over, door early

above simple C14 traceried 2-light window under plain arched label: north side plain this stage, south side has small cusped arched recess at low level and small plain lancet at high level: second stage has cusped 2-light flat headed windows without labels to each face, with stone louvres: those to north and east faces have no tracery. inside there is work of all periods.

Chancel has arched timber rib and boarded panel vault with bossesi a C14 or C15 chancel arch

internal ferramenta to windows and early C20 wall panelling and fittings, including well-detailed rood screen which is set on nave side of chancel arch and makes use of original stairs.

Nave has similar ceiling, and narrow tower arch with carved head corbels under capitals

windows have simple rere-arches, those in north wall being elliptical: pews probably C19, formerly box pews: pulpit C17, timber with carved panels

font a simple C11 bowl.

Some medieval heraldic stained glass in north windows, and east window may contain further fragments.

Memorials mostly C20, but three good incised C17 Keinton slab memorials in nave floor

in a case on the north wall two fragments of C14/C15 carved alabaster figurines, possibly representing St Michael and a Crucified Christ and perhaps from a former reredos.