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St Michael and Angels

St Michael And Angels

Eastington

Gloucestershire

C14, dedicated 1340 to St. Mary, known as St. Michael's from C18, probably on site of earlier church.

Architectural Features

Nave rebuilt c1500 and south aisle added in early C16 by Duke of Buckingham, north porch 1652, C19 vestry

Tower of 3 stages with string courses, clasped buttresses up to first string course, embattled parapet with square stair tower projecting above height of parapet on north side surmounted by weathercock said to be C16

South aisle and clerestory windows Perpendicular and mostly 3-light, and four- centred archway with square hoodmould and enriched spandrels with carved letters SB for Stafford and Buckingham, and 3-light east window with complicated Perpendicular tracery and square hoodmould with angels and shields on stops.

Restored 3-light chancel east window with arched hoodmould, and carved memorial tablet adjoining with cherub's heads and swag and illegible slate inscription panel, probably of early/mid C18.

Interior: Six-bay nave arcade to south with octagonal piers, 2 to east having been restored in 1885 when elaborate semi-pyramidal painted compartmented choir, ceiling, pulpit, stone choir screen, lectern and pews were inserted.

Norman tub font to south west.

Many good marble monuments and floor brasses to Stephens family, early lords of the Manor, including large altar tomb near font with recumbent figures of Edward Stephens and wife, with very small heads.