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St Michael

St Michael

Ufton

Warwickshire

Early C13 origins

Architectural Features

with C14

C13 and C16 alterations and additions

Plain-tile chancel and nave roofs with decorative flashing, and lead aisle roofs

C14 ogee-headed doorway with hood mould in south wall, with C19 plank door

C13 south door restored and probably re-used from original nave

C14 doorway in north nave wall with moulded pointed-arch surround

Restored C14 window to right of 3 cusped lights and trefoil tracery

C16 clerestory of 2 square-headed windows to north and 3 to south

third stage added C15

offset buttresses rising to third stage and hollow-moulded eaves cornice with gargoyles

Restored C14 window to west, of 2 cusped lights and quatrefoil tracery, with relieving arch above

C15 bell-stage windows of 2 cusped lights with transoms within segmental pointed head

Respond to east of south arcade has carved foliage capitals

C19 font in south aisle in C14 style, with hexagonal basin supported on pedestal with engaged shaft at each angle

Two C15 benches to rear of nave with carved pinnacles and beast head

Brass in north aisle east wall inscribed. 'here lyeth the Boddyes of Richard Woddones parsson and pattron and vossioner of the Churche and parishe of Ufton

Ayles his iiii daughters whose sole restethe with God'. The brass shows Richard ioddames and his wife kneeling lacing one another over a prayer-desk with their sons and daughters kneeling behind. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire