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St Michael

St Michael

Brodsworth

South Yorkshire

C11 nave, additions of C1200, C15 and C19, restoration 1874.

Architectural Features

Rubble and ashlar limestone, red tile and sheet metal roofs.

East belfry window has carved spandrels and round arch with clock above.

Cavetto-moulded course with gargoyles beneath embattled parapet.

Embattled south wall of nave with parapet against tower being a relic of C11 tower.

North wall has small C12 window to right (probably re-set), C19 windows of 3 and 5 lights to left.

C14-C15 font beneath tower: octagonal with wood corona.

Pulpit dated 1696 has marquetry panels, carved garlands and cherubs' heads.

Late C18 wall monument to Buck family.

Thellusson monuments and brasses in south chapel.

Brass of 1773 to left of altar.

Early grave slabs in nave including one to Richard de Pickburn at east end of central aisle: foliated cross, dated 1421.

Other medieval slabs and reused material described elsewhere (Ryder, pp32-33).

P. F. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire , South Yorkshire County Council Archaeology Monograph, No 2, 1982, pp25-34 (full analysis of structure and medieval monuments).