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St Michael

St Michael

Duntisbourne Rouse

Gloucestershire

Late Cll or early C12

Architectural Features

C12 chancel

C15 west tower.

Left of south door 2-light C15 window in square-headed opening, and to right trefoil-headed lancet, with further Early English lancet to east.

very small belfry openings with Tudor-arched heads

St Michael's Church, the upper stage of the saddle-back tower dates from 1587

inscription stone above belfry opening in west face reads: 'THIS WAS BUILT BY JOHN HADEN MASON JOHN FREEMAN AND JOHN HOSKINS BEING WARDENS A.D. OI 1587'.

St Michael's Church, the upper stage of the saddle-back tower dates from 1587

© Alan Longbottom

SO9806 : Norman chancel arch, St. Michael's, Duntisbourne Rous, Glos.

Norman chancel arch with 3 orders of roll mouldings to intrados, and 3 colonnettes to pier jambs each with scalloped capital

SO9806 : Norman chancel arch, St. Michael's, Duntisbourne Rous, Glos.

© nick macneill

Survival of wall paintings

extensive late Norman wall painting survives on north wall with fragments on east side of chancel arch piers and south wall

Survival of wall paintings

© Alan Longbottom

Misericord

choir stalls with C15 misericords, each with grotesque head and vine leaf decoration.

Misericord

© Alan Longbottom

Jacobean Pulpit

Hexagonal Jacobean timber pulpit in nave.

Jacobean Pulpit

© Alan Longbottom

Late Norman octagonal stone font on octagonal shaft and square base

trilobed carved foliage decoration.

Late C19 and C20 stained glass in chancel.