St Michael

C14, mid - late C19 extension and restoration.

St Michael's church is very much part of the early mediaeval structure of Winterbourne. The church lies close to the old manor house and barn, built for Sir Thomas Bradeston in 1342. Part of the old surrounds include this raised walkway by the churchyard, raised high above the land's normal level. Close by are the old ponds, originally used as fishponds by the clerics of old.

© Neil Owen

Rubble, freestone dressings, slate and concrete double roman tile roofs, raised coped verges with saddlestones.

Chancel from C12 has pilaster buttresses and a round-headed priest's door, chamfered around a keel moulding, good plank door with fish-tail bands

Built c 1198. Notice the keyhole design squeeze stile in the foreground.

© Steve Fareham

nave has 8 bay rebuilt hammerbeam roof, tower arch has ½ engaged column with round caps below arch with hood mould, a piscine remains as do glazed squint and rood squint, east and west pointed tower arches and a similar massive rere-arch to south window, giant curved corbels above, cusped piscina at south east corner, remnants of wall paintings, chevrons to arch chamfers, foliage within, heraldry to window arch, roses on corbels

north Manor chapel, restored circa 1880 has another mock mediaeval roof.

Fittings: revedos of 1856 has carved Last Supper by Farmer

perpendicular stone pulpit of 1877

C17 font with hollow moulded octagonal stem and gadrooned bowl.

Manor chapel contains C14 monuments to Richard and Isabel Bradeston and their son John and wife - fine reclining courtly figures

one similar unknown female figure

a good brass, probably another Bradeston of c.1370

a memorial of 1612, John Buck, Ionic columns and shields on a chest tomb, Corinthian columns and a frieze above

in the chancel a fine wall memorial, 1662, Amy Symer, marbled, aedicule with twisted Composite columns, open pediment with scallop, cherubim and early C19 tablets by O. Greenway and T. Paty