St Michael

C15 work, a dated renovation of 1628 at the expense of Humphrey Hutchins, thorough renovation of 1876.

red tile roof including bands of scalloped tiles and the aisle has fleur-de-lys crested ridge tiles.

Plan and development: nave and north aisle with chapel are Norman with C13 improvements, the aisle was refurbished in 1628, C14 chancel,

C15 west tower.

Unbuttressed west tower with embattled parapet and carved gargoyle water spouts and semi-octagonal stair turret projecting from the south east corner.

Each side are 2-light windows with Early Decorated style tracery and hoodmoulds with carved foliage label stops.

The 2 north windows of the aisle have segmental pointed arches and contain Decorated style tracery and the hoodmoulds have carved foliage label stops.

Nave and aisle have open wagon roofs with moulded ribs and purlins and carved bosses.

4-bay arcade has Norman piers.

The capitals have been fashioned to accommodate the C14 or C15 arches but some of the original scallop carving of their capitals remain.

Floor of C19 tiles with some encaustic tiles in the sanctuary.

C19 carved Beerstone reredos with marble shafts is in Gothic style with crocketted pinnacles and cusped arches and panels carved with sacred emblems.

The altar is a C16 oak communion table.

C18 brass chandelier in the chancel.

the oak communion rail on twisted brass standards and repousse brackets, the Gothic style stalls, pine benches etc. The C19 font is Beerstone with marble corner shafts.

SY1796 : Farway, St. Michael and All Angels Church: c19th Beer stone font with marble corner shafts 2

© Michael Garlick

Memorials: the best monument is that in memory of Sir Edward Prideaux It is Beerstone and Renaissance in style.

At the foot of the monument a knight in armour lies on his side

it is believed to Peter, Sir Edward's grandson who erected the monument.

Also in the north aisle a bust is set in the wall over the inscription "This parte was neu builte in the yere of our Lord 1628 by the Benovolence of Humphrie Hutchins of this Parish".

There are other C18 and C19 marble memorials mostly to members of the Prideaux family, notably the one in the chapel in memory of Sir Peter Prideaux Some C19 stained glass.