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St Michael

St Michael

Macclesfield

Cheshire

C13 in origin, the exterior fabric mainly 1898-1902 but with remodelled Perpendicular tower,

Architectural Features

2 chapels to south of 1501-7

Embattled parapet with gargoyles and angle pinnacles.

Single respond of earlier (late C13) arcade survives to W of south arcade, a plain chamfered arch carried on corbel.

Carved angels carry shields at base of each bay of roof.

Tomb against east wall of south aisle, Thomas Rivers, d. 1694: the figure reclines in a pedimented and draped aedicule, by William Stanton, moved and repaired in 1978.

Small mobile font recovered from churchyard: shallow fluted basin with enriched wooden lid carried on balustraded shaft, dated 1744.

Timber pulpit, open-work base to octagonal pulpit depicting figures of saints in high relief.

Tombs to south of Sir John Savage the 4th and his wife Catherine, the 2 recumbent figures holding hands

Legh chapel formerly the baptistery: octagonal font with blind traceried panels and green marble clustered shafts.

Stained glass in south window by Shrigley and Hunt, 1903, Old and New Testament figures, linked by the theme of baptism to the lower narrative lights.

Savage Chapel: 2 tomb recesses fill the lower part of the archway from the south aisle: Sir John Savage the 5th d. 1492, and Sir John Savage the 6th(?).

Narrow C16 doorway to chapel alongside.

Stained glass by Morris and Co, the Ascension, with English Saints in side lights.

2 tomb recesses in the south wall, each a deeply-moulded arch with steep pointed hoodmould with fleurons, and coats of arms carved in the apex: Sir John Savage the 7th and his wife - recumbent figures in a richly traceried recess with small 3-light window, also with stained glass by Morris and Co

an unknown civilian of c1500, the central part of the figure uncarved from the block.

Tomb against west wall, Sir John Savage the 8th, d. 1597, and his wife: 2 recumbent figures, the female at a higher level, in an aedicule, the polished shafts surmounted by obelisks each side, and figures reclining on the arch.

Small wall-mounted brass, the 'Legh Pardon' brass, 1506.

High south window with stained glass by Morris and Co., 1917.

STAINED GLASS: in nave, aisles and chancel: chancel east window of 1910: Christ in Majesty with St Michael, Powell and Company.

Kempe window towards the east as memorial to Boer War

West nave window: a memorial to Queen Victoria, depicted enthroned in the centre with angels bearing texts each side - Powell.