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St Michael

St Michael Caerhays

Cornwall

C12 origin

Architectural Features

rededicated 1259.

late C15 - early C16 additions and alterations.

Slate roofs with crested ridge tiles and gable ends.

The north transept survives, and there is a C12 north doorway to the nave.

The west tower is of C14, altered in C15, with C15 parapet.

Circa late C15 - early C16, a south aisle was added, with a south porch set in the angle between the aisle and the nave.

Exterior: At the north side, the nave has a blocked doorway of C12, with chamfered jambs and moulded imposts, the tympanum carved with a mutilated agnus dei.

there is a C15 3-light north window with cusped lights and 4-centred arch, splayed reveals.

C15 embattled parapet in ashlar.

C15 3-light Perpendicular west window with cusped lights, 4- centred arch and hood mould.

The south windows are C15-early C16 each of 3 lights, the central light taller, plain hollow-chamfered 3-centred arches, and hollow-chamfered 4-centred arch overall.

C19 carved wooden screen across the arch.

The nave has a Holy water stoup to south, set on a carved corbel.

The chancel has a bracket to north, carved as an angel, and C14 piscina to south with crocketed ogee hood.

2-bay south arcade with 4-centred moulded arches, Pevsner A-type piers with carved capitals, with leaves.

Fittings: C12 font in Pentewan stone in the nave, with circular bowl with carved leaves, on circular stem with a square base with cushion stops.

C19 carved wooden pulpit in the nave, and a C19 carved screen between the chancel and the south aisle.

C19 brass Communion rail.

Some carved bench ends in the north transept are possibly early C19 Gothic.

The monuments are all in the south aisle.

Stone monument to Charlotte Trevanion, 1810, with weeping putti and a crocketed gable over a tomb chest with inscription panels and shafts to sides with blind cusped panels as pilasters

Large marble monument to William Trevanion, 1767, erected 1769

Glass: The north window of the north transept has stained glass dated 1861

the east window of the south aisle has stained glass dated for the restoration of 1864.

The 2 lancets in the nave have stained glass showing Suffer Little Children and the Presentation in the Temple

Gunnis, R.: Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851.