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St Michael

Stoke Charity

Hampshire

Circa 1190, mid C13, mid C14, C15, C17

Architectural Features

Flint rubble mainly rendered with stone dressings, old plain tile roof, with medieval ridge tiles

Mid C14 W bays to aisle and nave with squat broach spire

N chapel to chancel rebuilt C15

Chancel has C15 perp

3 light E window and 2 C13 S lancets

At SE of nave early C14 2-light decorated window

S doorway C14, plain with 2 chamfered orders and C19 timberframed, tiled porch

W window 3- light early C14 decorated

Aisle has renewed C14 2-light perp W window, C19 2- light-window and reset C12 doorway with zig-zag moulding

Inside E window has some C15 glass and both lancet sills carry down, one as sedile, other to low window

On N wide C15 arch of 2 hollow chamfered orders on splayed, recessed jambs, with moulded capitals, to chapel

some C15 glass

On S wall frag- ments of C13 wall painting

C15 roof low pitched with arched braces and embattled wallplate

Tomb chest with lid brasses to Thomas Hampton & family, 1483

C12 chancel arch round of 2 orders, outer with roll and band of zig-zag moulding

C12 2 bay arcade has heavy octagonal pier and responds, unmoulded arches and capitals of many scallops

Early C17 nave roof has moulded wallplate and arch braces with pendants

S E window has recess below with surviving brass to Thomas Wayte, 1482

In aisle C12 square capital with foliage of trailing vine, part of pillar piscina, and C15 sculpture illustrating Mass of St-Gregory

Under E arcade arch pair of early C16 Purbeck marble altar tombs, with shields in quatrefoils

Nearby C12 font with other fittings C19

3 bells of 1606 and mid C15

Photo coming soon