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St Michael

St Michael

Croston

Lancashire

CROSTON CHURCH STREET SD 41 NE 8/67 Church of St. Michael (Formerly 17.4.67 listed as Church of St Michael GV and All angels) II* Parish church, probably mainly C16, with some earlier fabric at east end,

Architectural Features

C15 tower: altered in C17, partly rebuilt at various dates in C18, re-roofed and "beautified" 1823, restored 1866-7.

Massive square 4-stage tower, mostly embraced by nave, with angle buttresses and embattled parapet with corner and intermediate pinnacles, has deep moulded pointed-arched west door with hoodmould terminating in carved heads, above this an arched 4-light window with moulded surround (probably C16 but containing later tracery), 3-light belfry louvres with intersecting tracery and hoodmoulds

above this a low 4-centre-headed window of 4 round-headed lights with hollow spandrels, flanked at sill level by carved armorial shields

flat-pitched roof of 6 bays with moulded beams on carved wall brackets (similar to aisles)

In chancel, remains of an aumbry in the north wall, and of a double piscina in the south wall, this with a carved capital of a shaft, possibly C13

at west end, hexagonal font dated 1663 with carved geometricised quatrefoil panels, on 6-shafted pedestal

and over south door a hatchment.