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St Michael

Winforton

Herefordshire

C13 or earlier origins, part rebuilt and extended circa 1300 with further C16

Architectural Features

C17 alterations

Plain tiled roofs with decorative ridge tiles and parapets with cross finials at east end and at end of north transept.

Lower rubble stage is medieval.

The timber-framed bell chamber was added in the C16.

Nave: heightened in C14.

Chancel: rebuilt c1300, the east wall was rebuilt in 1698 and part of the south wall was again rebuilt in 1895.

There is a reset and restored original east window of three lights and nearby is a stone inscribed "John Houlds, 1698" recording the rebuilding of the wall.

A medieval doorway in the west wall of the nave leads into an alcove at the base of the tower.

Nave and chancel have C14 wagon roofs with scissor-braces.

The stone font is probably C13 and has an octagonal bowl and circular stem on two-stepped base.

The five-sided timber pulpit includes two enriched arcaded panels with inscriptions, one from the Bible, the other stating "This pulpit/ was given/ by Thomas/ Higgins gent/ Anno Domini/ 1613"

the other panels are of late C17 date.

In the north transept there is a recess with a cusped head and scalloped fan-shaped drain of circa 1300.

Memorials: early C19 memorial in the chancel to Abigail Domuile, died 1822, with urn relief.

In the nave is a memorial to William Domuile, died 1859, to Edward Price, died 1773, and to samuel, Ferrar, all with urn decoration. (RCHM, III, p 212-3, item 1