St Michael

West tower, C15, of 3 stages with set-back buttresses and set-offs.

Tower arch has panelled jambs and soffit, C15.

Fittings: font, late C12, stone circular bowl decorated with continuous intersecting arches on colonettes with imposts.

Brass indent, in tower, stone slab (top part missing) with indent of foliated cross and marginal inscription in separate capitals.

Slab forms part of tomb stone to Thomas de Luda and Eleanor his wife, c.1320, formerly in Abbotsbury Abbey.

Image: on west wall of the tower, carved stone panel of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John, C15.

SY5292 : Stone carvings on the tower of St Michael, Askerswell

© David Smith