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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Church Broughton CP

Derbyshire

C12, early C14, C15, early C18 and 1845.

Architectural Features

Low-pitched C15 lead roofs with stone coped gables.

The ground stage has a C14 cusped ogee lancet with hoodmould to south, a 2-light window with Y-tracery set in chamfered surround to west, and 2-light cusped Dec bell-openings to all faces.

Battlements with large gargoyles and C19 circular pinnacles.

C14 roof line visible on the east face of the tower.

The south aisle has four buttresses and two 2-light C14 windows with cusped ogee tracery, renewed in the right hand window.

C15 clerestory with three plain early C18 2-light mullioned windows.

The south side of the chancel has three buttresses with two set-offs, and from left to right, a 3-light mullioned and transomed window with re-used C14 cusped tracery, set in a chamfered surround.

Early C14 four bay arcades with circular piers, double-chamfered arches, moulded polygonal capitals, and semicircular responds.

The western-most piers are broader, the two semicircular responds with a piece of wall between, and have re-set grotesque figures.

The north-east respond is C12 with scalloped capital.

In the south wall of the chancel. early C14, stepped sedilia with cusped ogee arches and a similar piscina.

Re-set C14 head corbels left and right of the east window.

C12 tapering tub font, with bold motif of zigzag and intersecting circles.

Monuments: Chancel north c1839 by Hall of Derby, a marble tablet with draped urn on a slate obelisk back plate.

Brass memorial tablet, chancel north, c1904 by Jones & Willis.

Stained glass in the east window 1904 by Hardman.

Pulpit of 1750 with raised and fielded panels.