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St Michael

Holyport

Berkshire

Between the second and third windows are the remains of a C13 pointed-arched doorhead, now filled with flint

Architectural Features

The easternmost window is late C15 with three, cinquefoil lights under a traceried square head

The other three windows are early C14, reset, except the westernmost, which is a C19 copy

The south doorway is probably C14 and has a two-centred head, and is of two orders

To the west of the south doorway is an octagonal font with quatrefoil panels and a wooden cover which was made in 1647, as entered in the book of churchwardens' accounts for that year

that on the south, to the south chapel, is early C14 and of chalk

The chancel arch is of two moulded orders, and there is a late C15 doorway in the north wall of the chancel, leading to the vestry

Monuments: there are several brasses of the C14, C15 and C16

On the north wall of the chancel is a mural monument with an egg and dart frame to William Goddard of Philibert, d.1609, founder of Jesus Hospital, and Joyce Maunsell his wife, d.1622: within two niches under an entablature and broken pediment supported by marble Corinthian columns, are painted three-quarter figures of William Goddard and his wife

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