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St Michael

St Michael

Chesterton

Cambridgeshire

TL 1295 13/27 CHESTERTON OUNDLE ROAD (north side) Parish church of St Michael 13.12.57 I Parish church.

Architectural Features

C12 nave, south aisle early C13 and ground stage of tower.

Chancel arch c.1300

north aisle, mid C14 clerestory and spire to tower.

South elevation: west tower of two stages surmounted by a broach-spire with corbel-table of carved heads, stair turret in south-west angle, belfry window of two pointed lights with a pierced spandrel in a two-centred head with chamfered label

Nave with embattled parapet with ball-flower ornament and three clerestory windows c.1330 each with three trefoiled lights in a square head with moulded label and mask stops

South doorway C13 with two-centred head of three moulded orders with moulded label, two orders on detached shafts with capitals carved with 'stiff-leaf' ornament and one with carved head.

Two rainwater pipes inscribed 'GG 1821' Interior: nave arcades of four bays, north arcade with two-centred arches of two hamfered orders with moulded labels to the nave, octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases the later south arcade has two octagonal and one round pier, one with 'waterleaf' foliage and one with 'stiff-leaf' foliage carved capitals, all with moulded bases.

Chancel arch c.1300, two-centred of two chamfered orders with moulded label and mask stops.

C18 pulpit.

C18 baluster font.

Piscina in south aisle with chamfered jambs, two centred head C13, and recess in north aisle with shouldered triangular head and carved head stop above apex.

Nave roof C17 of five bays with cambered tie beams

Monuments and floor slabs see RCHM and VCH, of note to Sir Robert Bevill and his son Sir Robert dated 1611, and to John Driden 1707-8.