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St Michael

St Michael

Wymondham

Leicestershire

C13, C14, C15, C19.

Architectural Features

West tower, 3 stages, has 2 chamfered string courses, quatrefoil frieze, 4 gargoyles, crenellated parapet with 4 pinnacles and pyramidal roof with weathercock.

First stage has to west, a C13 lancet.

Clerestory, C15, 3 bays, has moulded parapet and gable.

North aisle, C14, 4 bays, has an angle buttress to west and 2 buttresses to north, with 2 setoffs.

West end has an untraceried C13 triple lancet with hood mould.

North porch, C14, has chamfered plinth, 2 flanking buttresses and coped gable with cross.

Interior has stone benches, C19 roof and C14 double roll moulded inner doorway with shafts, hood mould and mask stops.

Chancel, C13 raised C15, 2 bays, has moulded plinth and coved eaves.

North side has a C13 cove and roll moulded blocked doorway with shafts and hood mould with foliate stops.

Above, 3 C14 cusped double lancets with Y tracery and coved flat headed reveals.

East end has 2 angle buttresses and a C14 cusped ogee triple lancet with flowing tracery, hood mould and mask stops.

To its right, a buttress flanked to left by a C14 triple ogee lancet with reticulated tracery and to right by an altered opening containing an ogee double lancet with reticulated tracery.

East end has a blocked C14 untraceried triple lancet with hood mould and mask stops.

C14 south porch has a double chamfered and rebated doorway with octagonal responds, hood mould and mask stops, flanked by single buttresses and topped by a coped gable with a block sundial finial.

Interior has triple chamfered tower arch, C13, with triple shaft responds and hood mould.

Nave arcades, C14, 4 bays, have octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals.

North west respond C13, half-round, the remaining responds half-octagonal.

North aisle north wall has to east a large C14 tomb recess with crocketed gable and finial.

South east corner has a C14 moulded piscina.

Chancel has C13 double chamfered

rebated arch with hood mould and mask imposts, and an altered C15 traceried oak screen with billeted crest.

South side has to east a C13 piscina and a window seat with below it, a blocked opening with a 4 centred arched head.

To its right, a C13 double sedilia altered to form a monument and given inscribed tablets, by Rev. P. Boundy, c.1730.

Fittings include moulded round font, C14, on a square stem with 4 ringed shafts, and turned, bracketed C18 cover.

Late C17 altar table with turned legs, C18 altar rail with barley sugar twist balusters, small C18 table and chair, early C18 benefactions board.

C19 octagonal pulpit, desk, stalls, benches and brass lectern.

Royal Arms (George III) 1777.

Monuments include a large marble, slate and alabaster structure to Sir Roger Smith, 2 wives, his son and grandson, 1655.

Above it, a figure on each of 3 tiers and above, crested semi-circular panel with inscribed tablet, flanked by obelisks.

On either side an inscribed pedestal carrying a keystoned segmental headed crested niche containing a demi- figure.

Baroque monument to Sir Edward Smith alias Heriz, 1707, marble and slate, with pedestal with 2 inscribed tablets and crests and above, Ionic columns carrying a crested stepped- forward cornice and a swagged, scrolled broken pediment, all enclosing an inscribed tablet.

Classical marble monument to Olivia Smith, 1710, with moulded pedestal with 2 crests, carrying 2 Corinthian columns with full entablature and crested segmental pediment, all enclosing an inscribed tablet.

Rococo monument to Edward Smnith, 1762, in coloured marbles.

C18 hatchment, marble tablet 1879, 2 C20 tablets.