St Michael

Plain tiled roofs with decorative ridge tiles and cross-finial at east end.

The tympanum is carved with a Tree of Life (the only surviving example of this motif in Worcestershire) with a semi-circular border of six-pointed stars and a lower edge enriched with a cable moulding.

The C14 south doorway has an acutely pointed arch with a wide sunk moulding continued down the jambs.

The north elevation has an original round-headed light to the east of the vestry and the south elevation has a pair of cusped lancets, the jambs and rear arch of which are C14. and the rest C19.

Interior: C12 chancel arch with a semi-circular arched head of two chevron-moulded orders on the west side, and with square jambs and moulded imposts continued to the side walls of the nave.

The nave has a C19 ashlared arch-braced collar rafter roof, (some rafters in the east bay are probably C14), and the chancel has a C19 match- boarded barrel roof.

There is a cusped, ogee-arched piscina, partly of C14 date.

The stone font on marble columns and the three-sided timber pulpit are both C19 and in the vestry is the C17 oak altar table with turned legs.

Above the blocked north doorway is a large hatchment with the Hanoverian royal arms.

Memorials: in the nave is a memorial to John Tiylor, died 1760, with fine detail- ing

also a memorial to Ann Andrewse, died 1775, and an obelisk-shaped memorial to Sarah Downes, died 1802.

Glass: the east window has very early Morris glass with an Adoration of the Child flanked by angels commemorating a death in 1863. (VCH, IV, p 318-9

The stained-glass window in the north wall of the nave dates from the turn of the C20, which was installed in memory of Kieron Gledhill (1976-99), who is buried in the churchyard along with his sister Nicola (d.2003). Here is the outside view of the stained-glass [[7765325]].

© Fabian Musto