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St Michael

St Michael

Coningsby

Lincolnshire

C13, C14, C15, chancel rebuilt 1870 by T. C. Hine.

Architectural Features

C14 ashlar 3 stage tower with moulded plinth, angle buttreeses, embattled parapet to C15 belfry stage with gargoyles.

In the west wall of the nave is a blocked tower doorway now contaning a smaller C14 door with moulded surround and a contemporary circular window with 8 cusped lobes.

The greenstone north aisle has 2 and 3 light C14 reticulated windows.

C19 rockfaced limestone ashlar chancel in mid C13 style.

C15 south aisle in coursed limestone rubble with plain parapet with 3 broad 3 light windows and one narrower, with matching window in east wall, all having cusped heads, panel tracery and cambered arches.

2 storey, C15 south porch with continuously moulded pointed outer door with above a 3 light window to the parvise and plain parapet.

5 bay C13 nave arcades having double chamfered arches, hood moulds with human head stops, one a woman with mouthstrap, octagonal piers, responds and capitals, some with stiff leaf carving.

Blocked tower arch, double chamfered, containing circular window, stained glass of 1871.

C14 nave roof of 10 bays with king post roof, arch braced struts, through and collar purlins.

C14 chancel arch with moulded pointed head, with triple responds, annular and octagonal imposts.

In the south aisle a small C14 planked door with contemporary closing ring and handle.

The C19 chancel screen incorporates part of the base of the medieval screen.

C18 octagonal panelled pulpit on moulded stand.

C14 octagonal font with waterholding moulded base and panelled sides.

Monuments.