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St Michael

Dewsall

Herefordshire

C14 with earlier, probably C12 elements

Architectural Features

South porch is probably C14 and little restored.

South doorway, possibly C12 or C13 has semi-circular head and is continuously chamfered.

Chancel has stained glass in east window showing the Marys and Angels at the sepulchre after The Resurrection, for Walter Morris, died 1882, his wife Dorothea, died 1864, and their son, Walter, died 1888.

On the north wall is a slate and marble monument for Ann Skyrme, died 1835, in the form of a pedimented aedicule with scrolled frieze and acroteria.

Brass collection plate, c1900 with respousse lettering on the margin: "The.Lord.loveth.a.cheerful.giver".

Communion table is early C17 of oak with turned legs and lower rails at floor level.

C17 bench is oak with turned legs and grooved rails.

Nave has C14 font with octagonal shaft stopped to square base and circular bowl, the underside of which is octagonal.

On the west wall a freestone wall monument partly painted black for William Skyrme, died 1804, with obelisks flanking a central column support- ing an urn.

Adjacent is a black monument for Joyce Skyrme, died 1794, with a weeper in base-relief resting on an urn and the inscription, "When such friends part, tis the survivor dies".

Beneath are several floor slabs mainly mid-C17 to early C18.

On the north wall a black and white marble monument with small pediment for William Mayos, died 1826.

Late C19 pine part-octagonal pulpit with integral bookrest which is adjustable for height by an internal screw and has two rows of square-set quatrefoil panels.

Late C19 oak lectern has shaft enriched by tabernacles and book-wedge decorated with openwork panels to front, corner finials and cresting. (BoE, p 110