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St Michael the Archangel

Architectural Features

north and south chantries C14

aisles rebuilt late C14

remainder C15

North aisle west window is 3-light perpendicular in square hood and panelled corners, south aisle has 3-light C14 reticulated, then diagonal buttress, plain parapet over string, saddle back coping

C14 windows

right pointed with unusual tracery East return has 5 light perpendicular windows with 5 large projecting carved heads

Porch islierne vaulted and has fine C15 inner door with perpendicular tracery

beneath an image niche with headless figure

Nave is 4 ½ bays with standard 4-colonnette and 4-hollows piers on high bases, clerestory, which is blind on the north side, barrel roof with series of 11 angels each side and half-bay celure over rood

Lofty tower arch of C15 with panelled intrados, and the wall here is exposed rubble

South side has two broad arches cut through the C13 fabric under three 2-light clerestory windows

to the north a lofty segmental pointed arch, to organ gallery, and a lower recut arch carried on an octagonal C15 pier with moulded cap

substantial remains of C15 rood screen with C20 gallery and rood

Cl9 openwork pulpit by C E Ponting

In south chapel on chancel side a good C15 chest tomb

also good baroque wall monument of 1712 to William Chafin

1398 floor brass to J.Bettesthorne royal Arms, 1684

Some misericords.recut in 1948

octagonal Purbeck bowl font on Cl9 granite base

Stained glass mainly Victorian, but west window in Bettesthorne Chapel has four mediaeval panels,and some fragments in central window to Still Chapel