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St Michael

Withington

Gloucestershire

C12, C13, early C14, C15, restoration and minor additions by David Brandon 1872.

Architectural Features

Chancel rebuilt C13.

C12 corbel table reused from former nave, with grotesque animal and beast's heads on north and south sides.

Three-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window with cinquefoil headed lights and Tudor-arched head with rosette stops right.

Three stage tower, lower stage C12, second (containing clock) C13, third stage C15.

Nave C13 with C15 clerestorey.

C12 north door with chevron moulding over plain tympanum.

Three-light Perpendicular west window replacing C12 round headed windows (still visible either side of present window) and cutting C12 sill course.

3-light Perpendicular window with stepped mullions far right, remains of moulded plinth below, incorporating slatestone monument to Robert Whitterne died 1667 and Robert Whitterne, died 1712.

Remains of lid from infant's stone coffin with carved cross left.

C13 south porch with angle buttresses and pointed flat-chamfered entrance with C19 double doors with balusters.

C14 south transept with small angle buttresses.

Hollow- moulded, stone-mullioned trefoil-headed light with carved spandrels in left-hand wall, similar 2-light window in right-hand wall.

flat-chamfered stone bench seats, C20 plank door within fine C12 round-headed surround with 3 orders of chevron, one enriched with flowers and a hoodmould with daisies ending in beast-head stops, two jamb shafts with carved and scalloped capitals.

Blocked round headed C12 north door opposite.

Pointed west tower arch of 3 orders with restored or rebuilt C12 piers comprising 3 engaged columns.

Blocked flat-chamfered doorway to former rood screen upper left of chancel arch.

C12 chevron ornament reused to form rere- arch, trefoil-headed lancet left of altar within chancel.

Restored C14 niche, probably an Easter sepulchre within south wall of nave with pierced cusping to opening, ballflower ornament and pinnacles either side, crocketted gable and engaged finial.

Headstone, removed from churchyard within recess to 'HONEST JHON STOCKWELL WHO DIED OF THE PLAGUE, 1665'.

Small defaced C15 piscina with credence shelf left, indicating former presence of nave altar.

octagonal font (probably post Reformation) inside south door.

C19 stone pulpit with blind cinquefoil-headed panels at north-west corner of nave.

Monuments: fine monument to Sir John Howe of Cassey Compton (q.v.) and his wife by Edward Marshall in south wall of nave towards west end

marble with 3 painted heraldic shields at top, 2-bay niche containing half-length figures of Sir John and his wife flanked by Corinthian columns.

Stone monument to Gilbert Osborne, Rector of Withington, died 1656

limestone, formerly with highlights in gold and black, single female figures either side of inscription plaque, segmental pediment above with mourning figures either side of heraldic shield.

Monuments within tower

monument to Gilbert Osborne, died 1646.

Simple limestone monument to Thomas Musto, died 1684.

Brass plaque to Elizabeth Thornburgh, died 1627 at south-west corner.

Four C19 marble monuments.

C15 stone effigy of priest in full vestments on south side of chancel.

C19 stained glass in east window and in south chapel.

Fragments of C15 coloured glass in nave west window.

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