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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Enham Alamein

Hampshire

Church of St Michael 24.2.50 and All angels I Norman, C13, C17

Architectural Features

Narrow single-cell church of Norman origin but mainly C13 features, bell-turret, south porch, C19 vestry

Tile roof, shingled bell turret with spire

The external walling is cement rendered, but the stonework of the filled-in 2 bay C13 arcade to a former south aisle is exposed, brick stepped buttresses at the angles

The C17 porch is timber-framed on a low wall, the cheeks being rendered and the gabled front clad in recent vertical boarding (with a round arched opening). There are some small C13 lancets on the north side, and on the south side an old double light in a square frame, and later wood-framed windows, the east window being a modern triple lancet

There are several wall monuments (of the C18 and early Cl9) in the chancel and the south wall of the nave, where there is a small exposure of the arch and column of the former arcade

two hatchments are hung high

Norman tube font