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St Michael

St Michael

Yanworth

Gloucestershire

C12, Transitional

Architectural Features

C15.

C12 moulded plinth to all parts.

Keel moulded engaged columns either side of door with carved capitals showing development towards stiff-stalk carving.

C12 nail-head string course at west end of nave, cut by Perpendicular 2-light window with cinquefoil-headed lights and hood with square stops.

small C12 round-headed window.

Blocked C12 round- headed doorway with hood left.

C15 parapet with moulded capping to nave.

Gargoyles (mostly defaced) from string on north and south.

C15 two-light hollow-chamfered window with trefoil-headed lights and tracery within a rectangular surround with stopped hood.

North wall, single narrow round-headed C12 light with cinquefoil- headed lights and stopped hood.

Pair of monuments in the form of small metal plaques left.

C12 dentil mouldings on the left-hand impost, fine carving of a woman's face below right-hand impost.

C19 roof to nave with braced tie beam supported by probably C15 corbels, grotesque carved heads.

C19 barrel roof to chancel with large square carved bosses and brattished wall plate.

Rear of blocked C12 north doorway visible in chancel north wall.

SP0713 : St Michael, Yanworth: font

C12 font with cable moulding around rim and C20 base at base of tower.

SP0713 : St Michael, Yanworth: font

© Basher Eyre

Wall paintings