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St Michael

St Michael

Rossington

South Yorkshire

C12 with mid C14 tower

Architectural Features

north and south gargoyles to embattled parapet with 8 crocketed pinnacles.

Gabled porch to bay 1 encloses restored C12 south door having shafted jambs and beak-heads beneath billeted hoodmould.

Chancel: lower, mid C19 in Norman and Early English styles.

C12-style 1-light window on right

C19 nave and transept roofs of arch-braced trusses on carved stone corbels.

Excellent mid-C12 chancel arch has re-entrant jambs with short shafts and half-round responds starting high up

respond capitals have corner masks and entwined trail carving

arch has zig-zag to west and pelleted outer order beneath carved and billeted hood.

Font: plain pre-Conquest tub on chamfered plinth and with cable-moulded rim.

Pulpit: C15 on later foot

Stained glass: east window of 1862 by J. B. Capronnier of Brussels.

Wall monument in chancel by Walsh and Lee of Leeds to James Brown of Harehills Grove, Leeds