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St Michael

St Michael

Ashbrooke

Tyne and Wear

Medieval chancel largely reconstructed

Architectural Features

Late C13 style piscina and sedilia.

High-quality C20 carved wood organ case and pulpit with sounding board.

Medieval font bowl, C17 font with fluted bowl on turned pedestal rising from acanthus leaves, and elaborate C19 font.

MEMORIALS: include two medieval grave-covers, one with a stepped base to the incised cross and the other with a foliate cross head, both in west porch

an eroded medieval effigy in the south transept said to be that of Thomas Middleton of Silksworth.

Many C18 and C19 memorials, including brass in chancel to William Cockin by Singer and Sons, Frome and London

also in chancel, memorial to John Scott by Lewis and Son, Cheltenham.

and a marble memorial to Thomas Wilson, one of the proprietors of the Glass Manufactory at Ayres Quay, d. 1776.

Glass includes east window 1950 by D.M Grant.