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St Michael

St Michael

Oasby

Lincolnshire

TF 03 NW HEYDOUR MAIN STREET (east side) 3/15 20-9-66 Church of St. Michael I Parish Church: C12, C13, C14, C15, C17, C19.

Architectural Features

The C13 ashlar tower is very tall, in 4 stages with 3 string courses and a plain parapet with 2 gargoyles per face and corner pinnacles.

The south side has in its 1st stage a tall C13 lancet under a hood- mould with small human mask stops.

The 1st string course is omitted to allow a C13 deeply splayed 3 light window with Y tracery, recut in C19 with hoodmould and C19 stops.

To all faces are C14 2 light belfry openings in the 4th stage, with rectilinear tracery under hood moulds under human mask stops.

The ashlar north aisle has a C13 west window, 2 light with Y tracery and hood mould with human mark stops.

To the east are 3 large C14 3 light windows with unusual reticulated tracery based on a quatrefoil design under hoodmoulds with human mask stops.

It has six 3-light C15 windows with 4 centre arches under a continuous hoodmould.

The earlier C13 work is in coursed rubble.

The north side has a roll moulded plinth and two C13 single lights, recut, with hoodmoulds and label stops.

The south aisle has a C14 3 light east window with tracery as in the north aisle.

On the east buttress is a gravestone, decorated with flowers and an angel to Baker d. 1786.

The central window is C14 as the north aisle, it is flanked by single 3 light C14 windows having an interesting combination of rectilinear and curvilinear tracery.

The tall south porch has side stepped buttresses and an embattled parapet to the east side with gargoyle and plain parapet with cross fleury to ridge on front.

now half blocked, is as the north aisle C14 type with an ogee headed hood mould.

The south doorway is a C14 double chamfered arch.

north and south arcades are of 4 C14 bays with clustered octagonal piers with circular abacii and double chamfered arches.

The C14 tower arch is double chamfered and above, the 2 roof lines of earlier nave roofs can be seen.

Inside the tower a length of C12 zigzag moulding has been reset in the arch over the stair doorway.

The chancel arch is C14 double splayed with circular responds and is flanked by doors to the rood loft.

The font is C14 octagonal with traceried panels.

The chest is early C16 with 3 heads in profiles set in roundels.

Monuments: In the chancel is a brass floor plaque to Isaac Carter d. 1687.

In the north chapel is a collection of monuments to the Newton family as follows: a large tablet with convex inscription plate flanked by composite columns with floral carving and egg and dart surround to Abigail Newton d. 1686

a standing monument to Lady Newton 1737 by Peter Scheemakers, a black sarcophagus with putti left and right and a bust on top with a reredos background.

A large white marble monument to Sir Michael Newton, d. 1746, also by Scheemakers, an urn on an inscribed sarcophagus on claw feet. with a reredos background with a garlanded angel over, flanked by 2 life size figures, to the left a woman reading to the right a woman holding an extinguished torch in one hand and an everlasting serpent in the other

Wall paintings: traces of red paint are visible on the chancel responds.

Stained glass

in the north aisle 2 complete C14 schemes.

There are considerable fragments of C14 glass containing much heraldry else- where in the church.