Architectural Features
Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and plain tile roof.
West gable wall has angle buttresses plus large single late C12 buttress with set-off and ogee headed niche, covering blocked doorway.
South wall has 3 small irregular lights plus a C15 2-light cusped window.
Interior has late C12 2 bay north arcade with round, double chamfered arches and octagonal pier and responds with moulded capitals.
Fragment of C11, pillar piscina in chancel.
Fine plain panelled early C18 box pews throughout with large family pew and double- decker pulpit
'A Shell Guide to Lincolnshire' says of St Michael's Church, Stragglethorpe: "Church is a medieval building, with plastered ceiling, bleached pine box pews, and two-decker pulpit." The church has an Anglo-Saxon west wall. This view looks from the chancel to the nave. The squire's pew is clearly seen on the left.
Good monument of 1697 to Richard Earle by Green of Camberwell, black and white marble with 2 busts in front of pilasters with drapes raised revealing commemorative epitaph and topped with urns and coat of arms.
Monument in St.Michael's church to Sir Richard Earle Bt. died 1697 Stay, Reader and observe Deaths partial doom A spreading Virtue in a narrow Tomb, A generous Mind mingled with common Dust; Like Burnishd Steel cover'd and left in Rust. Dark in the Earth he lies, in whom did Shine All the Divided Merits of his Line, The Lustre of his Name seems faded here, No fairer Star in all that fruitfull Sphere. In Piety and Parts extremely Bright; Clear was his Youth, and filled with Crowning light A morn that promised much Yet saw no Noon None ever Rose so fair, an Set so soon All lines of Worth were Centred here in One, Yet see, he lies in Shades, whose Life had none, But while the Mother this sad Structure Rears, A double Dissolution there Appears; He into Dust dissolves, She into Tears Richardus Earle Bar.nt Obyt Decimo Tertio Die Augufti Anno Dom 1697 Aetatis Suae 24