Architectural Features
C15 south porch.
Large C15 west tower.
It contains a good quality oak door carved with blind cusped arcades and carved with a Latin quotation and dated 1914.
Possibly this window was reused in the C15 from the earlier church.
Above this window 2 small arch-headed niche contains a C20 carved figure of St. Michael and above that a painted clockface put there in 1867.
The roof is continuous over nave and chancel but the division is marked by an old ridge tile surmounted by a crude beast (maybe a pig).
Above the vestry, a window built of limestone, with Decorated tracery and hoodmould with carved labels.
It has moulded reveals with carved capitals and hoodmould.
Contemporary granite Tudor arch doorway in east end.
the ribs springing from half-engaged piers and with good carved bosses.
Nave and chancel have continuous wagon roofs with moulded purlins and ribs, good carved oak bosses and a moulded wallplate enriched with 4-leaf bosses.
The wall behind is lined with good polychrome tiles of 1888.
It is an expert recreation of a C15 Perpendicular oak chancel screen with blind tracery on the wainscotting, Perpendicular tracery to the windows, Gothic cusped coving and a frieze of delicately undercut bands of foliage.
The parclose screens are painted and it may be that they are actually C15
The pulpit is also built of oak and in the same Perpendicular style
The contemporary figures on the Riddel posts are the patron saints of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Brass lecturn is dated 1871.
Granite Perpendicular style octagonal font carved by a local mason, John Aggett, and dedicated to the memory of Katherine Hayter-Hames who died less than a year old in 1856.
The oak coved canopy is richly carved in Gothic style.
Memorials.
The tomb base is 3 bays divided by pilasters which are carved with foliage and with a frieze of wreathed foilage.
Each bay carved with foliage and with a frieze of wreathed foliage.
The arches and spandrels are richly carved with Renaissance ornament.
Moulded frieze above and moulded entablature with carved crestwork is supported by carved scroll consoles.
The back of the arcade is also richly carved with heraldic achievements surrounded by a dense pattern of expertly carved ornament featuring mermen, grotesques and foliage.
Nearby, on the sanctuary steps is a graveslab in memory of Mary Whiddon who died on her wedding day in 1641.
South aisle contains a good mural monument in memory of Sir John Prouz Built most of Beerstone, it contains an inscribed rectangular marble plaque flanked by free-standing marble columns with Corinthian caps and entablature with modillion frieze surmounted by a cartouche containing the Prouz arms flanked by other heraldic cartouches.
The soffit-moulded sill is supported by scroll brackets carved as grotesque lions heads and with an apron between enriched with strapwork and containing a carved oak heraldic achievement.
Above the monument is suspended a helmet bearing the Prouz crest.
To south of the sanctuary a granite recess with double ogee arch in memory of Constance Hayter-Hames and several C19 mural monuments to other members of the same family but the best monument from this period is a mural plaque in memory of Captain John Evans who died aged 23, in 1861 after an active service life.
It is carved as if the scroll is pinned to the end of a chest tomb on which lies his sword and an open Bible and over this is his regimental arms.
Glass.
The window of the north chapel contains fragments of C15 glass
The rest of the stained glass is C19 and most are memorials to members of the Hayter-Hames family.
This is a good C15 granite church although the interior is largely the result of the several late C19 and early C20 renovations.