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St Michael

Kingsland

Herefordshire

Early C14, incorporating some C13 fragments, some C15

Architectural Features

C16 additions.

West tower: five stages, C14 except top stage added in C15.

Stair turret at north-west corner corbelled out in angles between wall and buttress with a trefoil arch over carved heads.

Top stage defined by row of corbels, with a small single-light window with two-centred head on south and east walls, the parapet has carved gargoyles.

South porch is C15 and timber-framed with cambered tie-beam bearing a central grotesque, king-post roof and decorative bargeboards.

C14 north vestry, upper storey added in C16.

Font of C14 has an octagonal bowl with moulded soffit, plain stem and hollow chamfered base.

Stained glass of C14 in east window containing numerous figures including Christ in Glory, Coronation of the Virgin in two lights, various coats of arms and Tobias and the Angel Raphael.

Placed over altar in south aisle is a framed cartoon by Sir Frank Brangwyn for a stained glass window of the Crucifixion. (RCHM, 3, pp 80 - 82