St Michael And All Angels

Chancel reshaped in C15

Nave has battlemented parapets over later C15 three light four centre arched windows in recesses

two flat headed C15 windows and one with reticulated tracery, and in middle bay deep moulded pointed arched doorway without label

west window C15 style of two lights.

south aisle has plain parapet and corner buttresses, with three, three light reticulated windows of varying patterns, with small arched doorway at east end, and the double gabled south porch, rebuilt 1889, with inner C14 deep moulded doorway with label.

doubled corner buttresses, plinth, string courses, battlemented parapets with corner gargoyles

small door in east face and three light C15 window to south face of base, above being a plain lancet

signs of others now blocked on principal faces of octagon, then C14 two-light windows in deep recesses all faces, with pierced stone baffles.

chancel has modern ceiling over late C16 cornice, reredos incorporating C17 panelling, altar table dated 1626, bishop's and two matching chairs, one dated 1632

chancel arch probably early C14, wider than chancel: Nave has fine king post and panelled roof of c1510, richly ornamented, arcades probably mid C14

in south transept two blocked C13 doorways, and a blocked deep lancet in west wall, a trefoil arched piscina, and a pointed arched recess in south wall with effigy of a C13 nun.

Fittings include fine timberwork pulpit dated 1615, elaborately carved, octagonal on thin stalk, with considerable traces of colouring

octagonal font, probably C15, with C17 openwork cover, in south aisle

screen using portions of C15 gallery, also south aisle

fine C18 brass candelabras.

Monuments not remarkable.

Two Wessex wyverns with gnashing teeth

© Michael Garlick