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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Bampton

Devon

Tower probably C13, parts of chancel, nave

Architectural Features

aisle C14, C15 remodelling including arcade

Impressive plain battlemented west tower with a north-east projecting stair turret, angle buttresses, a double-chamfered west doorway and 3-light C14 west window with intersecting tracery.

large porch with plain 2-centred outer doorway, chamfered 2-centred inner doorway and C15 arch braced roof.

C15 moulded chancel arch with panelled soffit

5-bay C15 arcade with carved capitals

C15 wagon roofs to nave and aisle with moulded ribs and carved bosses, plaster infill removed

chancel wagon roof boarded with an extra rib over the sanctuary, 2-light window above chancel arch lights rood screen.

Fittings: The chancel has an C18 pedimented timber reredos in the Roman style which originally incorporated an oil painting

ogee-headed cusped C14 piscina

The remains of an exceptional probably late C15 cataclews tomb chest are fixed to the north wall.

a Jacobean timber drum pulpit, panelled and carved and an 1818 timber eagle lectern.

C15 octagonal font on stem, probably partly recut.

The tower has several late C17 memorials used as floor slabs.

Memorials and Stained Glass Wall tablet in the chancel to John Tristram, died 1732, with a cartouche surround.

Window in nave filled with fragments of late C15 stained glass, restored by Maurice Drake in 1921.

A memorial plaque fixed to the external wall of the tower in memory of the clerk's son has the unusual inscription : Bless my eyes../Here he lies/In a sad Pickle/Killed by Icicle/In the year 1776.