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St Michael

St Michael

North Cadbury

Somerset

Mostly of 1417, tower a few years earlier, some older fragments, with some restoration by John Norton.

Architectural Features

2 bays of slightly later C15

deep plinths, angled corner buttresses to full height, string courses, top with corner gargoyles, battlemented parapet

Internal character almost totally C15.

Vestry once used as school: alphabet letters painted in C18 script on south wall: chamfer mould panelled roof, one carved centre boss.

fine traceried kingpost roof with end drops onto angel corbels, leaf bosses, more elaborate than chancel: aisles have simpler roofs with only east bays panelled.

Font probably C15

pulpit C18: fine collection of mostly Cl6 bench ends, one dated 1538, and on east wall of south aisle three misericords of c1400.

Memorials mostly C19 and C20, but in tower space two large chest tombs of early C17

one dated 1611, probably of Sir Francis Hastings, died 1610,

his wife, died 1596, who is commemorated by a 96-line poem engraved on a brass above

the other to Ewens Fuily, Katherine died 1612 and %atthew died 1629

also some C18 tablets: an early C15 tomb to the Batreaux family who built the church removed for restoration Numerous fragments of medieval glass, especially in west window - eight figures, reset in 1891.