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St Michael and All Angels

Architectural Features

C15 Perpendicular south tower

EXTERIOR: the tower has three stages, the lower stages are early C14

the upper stage is C15.

It has an embattled parapet, pinnacles and gargoyles, and C15 stair tower to the north-east corner.

The west window to the nave has four lights with ogival cusping and flowing tracery, and a five-pointed figure made up of mouchettes to the window head.

INTERIOR: all the walls are rendered and there are encaustic floor tiles by Minton.

the carving attributed to Richard Boulton of Birmingham.

There is no clerestorey and the nave has a steep, cross- and arch-braced roof carried on stone angel-corbels, and a single row of purlins.

By the pulpit are two brasses to Thomas Dygenys

1523, and Isabell his wife, 1523-4.

The chancel incorporates a C14 piscina and a drop-sill sedilia (with dividers) in its south wall.

PRINCIPAL FITTINGS: at the west end is a richly-decorated octagonal stone font which was a gift from the rector's brother in 1844.

The stem is decorated with carved figures, while the bowl has figures depicts Apostles and Evangelists under canopied niches.

The stained glass in the chancel is designed by Pugin and manufactured by Hardman's of Birmingham: the east window depicts the Crucifixion and the south window depicts the Annunciation.

The stained glass in the north aisle and the tracery in the south aisle are by Lavers & Barraud, probably in 1857-9.