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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Hamstall Ridware

Staffordshire

Mainly C14

Architectural Features

C15 incorporating some C12 fragments.

West tower: Early C14.

C12 west wall.

Late C15 clerestorey: 4-centred arch windows with Y-tracery and concave quarter round-moulded jambs and mullions

C15 north aisle: square-headed windows of three trefoil-headed lights with ogee and concave quarter round-moulded surrounds, and sunken spandrels.

Continued to the east as the north chapel: C18 windows to north and east with semi-circular arches, raised keystones, moulded architraves and leaded glass.

C14 south aisle: square headed windows of three trefoil-headed lights with sunken spandrels.

Mid-C19 gabled south porch of rock-faced ashlar with yellow dressings and plain tile roof with fishscale tile bend.

Early C14 chancel with pointed east window of four trefoil-headed lights and cusped intersecting tracery.

Tall pointed and chamfered tower arch, and above it a C12 window, blocked by the west tower.

C15 roof over the nave with moulded ridge piece, purlins and tie beams

On the south side a C16 tomb recess has been inserted.

C14 piscina with trefoiled head and sunken spandrels in the south wall, partly destroyed by the tomb recess.

C19 stone font

C19 wooden pulpit

panels carved with grapes and vine leaves. early to mid-C16 north chapel screen

Late C15 south chapel screen with central Tudor arch and open traceried panels.

Monument.

Richard and John Cotton, 1502.

Stained Glass.

C14 fragments incorporated in one of the south chapel windows.

Three early C16 north aisle windows.

At the time of the resurvey two late C15 painted panels which had been incorporated into the reredos, had been removed for restoration work.