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St Michael

St Michael

Kirk Langley CP

Derbyshire

Early C14, late C14, C16, restoration 1839 and 1885 by Bodley and Garner.

Architectural Features

Lead and plain tile roofs, stone coped gables.

Two-light bell openings, early C14, with a transom, on all four sides.

South aisle east window of three Tudor-arched lights with a transom and the remains of a hoodmould with headstops relating to an earlier window.

The west window of two Tudor arched lights within a square hood.

Gabled vestry in battlemented Tudor style, according to a faculty, built in 1889.

Cusped three-light window to south under a Tudor arch.

Carved alabaster reredos with angels under crocketed gables.

MONUMENTS: Godfrey Meynell (chancel north) died 1854, A Gothic aedicule.

Plain C17 and C18 inscribed tablets built into the north wall and one free-standing on the south side.

One has a brass plate dated 1705.

In the north chapel an incised slab to Alice Beresford, died 1511.

In the south aisle, a tomb chest to Henry Role and wife, died 1559.

C19 parclose screen in south aisle, also in north aisle, incorporating medieval work.

Rood screen by Bodley & Garner.

Brass eagle of c1884.

Plain octagonal font on a C19 base.

C17 font cover.

Flemish stained glass dated 1631, in the south aisle east window.

Possibly C14 tower screen with simple geometrical tracery, moved from the chancel.