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St Michael and Our Lady (Wragby Parish Church)

St Michael And Our Lady (wragby Parish Church)

Nostell

West Yorkshire

Dated 1533 in chancel

Architectural Features

The unbuttressed tower has a chamfered plinth, a 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of hollow moulding, and a hoodmould, a 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery and a hoodmould, and above this a niche with cusped ogee head and a finial flanked 2 carved wheel patterns on each side, a dripmould to the belfry stage, 2-light louvred belfry windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds, and an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles.

coffered ceiling to chancel, with moulded beams and carved bosses

Latin inscription on wallplate in chancel commemorating Prior Alured (Comyn - penultimate prior of the Augustinian Priory of St Oswald) "who caused this choir to be built the ninth year of his Priorate and in the year of Our Lord 1533

The font is Norman and was placed in the church in 1830, having come from the village church of Auburn near Bridlington.

" cylindrical Norman font with large zig-zag decoration

The font is Norman and was placed in the church in 1830, having come from the village church of Auburn near Bridlington.

© Betty Longbottom

Flemish carved reredos

wall monument to Sir Rowland Winn (4th baronet), by Flaxman, 1806.

Pulpit with C17 Venetian carved panels in Turkish boxwood, and sounding board

hatchments of Winn family (in chancel) and Arms of Charles II (above door)