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St Michael

St Michael

Shirley CP

Derbyshire

C14, 1842 and 1861.

Architectural Features

Lead roofs with stone coped gables, plain coped parapets to aisles, porch with plain and fishscale tile roof.

Reset in the east wall a carved C12 stone with beasts and birds, perhaps from a lintel.

The south aisle is genuine C14, with a 3-light east window, with three lancets rising to a pair of intersecting ogees and rising again to enclose an elongated quatrefoil 2-light west window with cusped Y-tracery.

The south aisle has angle buttresse C14 chancel with diagonal buttresses, blind north wall, and a segmental pointed-arched east window of three cusped lancet lights.

Between them, a C13 priest's door with chamfer and continuous roll moulding.

Monuments, in the north aisle a plain tablet to Arthur Shevington c1850 by Hall of Derby.

Large tripartile Gothic memorial with texts under crocketed ogee canopies c1847 by Hall.

The south aisle has a dado made from Jacobean panelling dated 1649.

SK2141 : Font at St Michael's Church, Shirley

Font, octagonal with shields and tracery motifs.

SK2141 : Font at St Michael's Church, Shirley

© Ian S

In the chancel floor a late medieval incised slab to a priest.