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St Michael

St Michael

Rearsby

Leicestershire

Largely late C13 to early C14.

Architectural Features

Buttressed, 2 stages with embattled parapet with gargoyles and corner finials.

Carved cross motif recessed to each side of it.

On the east wall, a memorial with inscription on a slate beneath a sandstone broken pediment and shield of arms, to Richard Benskin, d 1756, and Sarah, d 1741.

East wall and west bay of north aisle are of granite rubble, the rest sandstone, probably all C19, though the north doorway, with shafts, roll moulding and hoodmould is late C13.

Nave of 4 bays with south arcade the earlier and probably late C13.

There is a mid-Victorian openwork wood traceried screen on a stone base which incorporates the ornate stone pulpit to the north.

Piscina and reredos in south wall of chancel are late C13, but other features are Perpendicular.

Font, C13, a rounded basin with 4 clusters of shafts supporting a carved but mutilated rim, and having carved capitals and bases standing free of the central round base.