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St Michael

St Michael

Bockleton

Worcestershire

C12, altered mid-C13 with additions of circa 1560

Architectural Features

West tower: added late C16 to early C17.

Nave: easternmost bay is expressed externally by pilaster buttresses and both elevations have a C13 window of three stepped cusped lights with a hoodmould.

The jambs have detached shafts with scalloped capitals and the spandrels have a vertical billet moulding on each side and are carved with flowers in circles.

Chancel: mid-C13.

The south elevation has two C13 pairs of cusped lancets with hoodmoulds and, between them, a blocked C13 doorway also with a hoodmould.

The north chapel dates from circa 1560.

West of the arcade is a C16 tomb recess with a segmental head and roll moulding (possibly part of the original chancel arch).

Stone reredos with foliated carving, piscina and sedilia are C19.

Traceried, arcaded timber chancel screen, circular font with head reliefs and arcaded detailing and three-sided timber pulpit, all C19.

Memorials: Barneby memorials in north chapel include tomb chest with demi- figures and shields with two elaborately carved recumbent effigies of Richard Barneby, died 1597, and his wife Mary, died 1574.

On wall behind are figures of five sons and four daughters in relief flanked by demi-figures.

Also, large marble memorial to Charles Baldwyn, died 1706, and tomb chest to William Wolstenholme Prescott by Woolner of 1865.

Glass: east window is by Kempe of c1905

also fragment of medieval glass in north-east nave window. (VCH IV, p 244-5