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St Michael

St Michael

Haytown

Devon

C15, restored 1874.

Architectural Features

Random rubble local stone, slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, porch and south aisle under same roof slightly higher than nave.

Pointed arch-head double roll noulded opening to porch, C19 rafter roof, depressed Tudor arch head doorway, C19 door

Two bay arcade of granite with depressed Tudor arch heads, and octagonal capitals with panels of birds and Christian symbols.

Octagonal pulpit with carved panels in memory of William Newcombe of Bankford died 1854.

Norman front with cable-moulded base on C19 plinth.

C19 decorative wooden reredos inset with slate tablets, altar table and floor tiles all coeval.

C19 stained glass in East window.

It is said that an inscription in the church, since lost, attributed its building to Sir William Hankford, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the years 1414-22.