St Michael

Crenellated parapet with corner gargoyles.

boarded door, steeply arched opening with carved spandrels, flat hoodmould.

Church: walls unplastered: Minton-tile floors in walkways, medieval tiles in the south aisle.

Upper part of stairs to rood screen in south aisle.

Nave 4-bay roof, low-pitch tie-beam trusses, carved boss under stump king-post, quatrefoil infill to truss: one pair purlins, square set ridge, all with painted medieval decoration.

C17 communion rails, spiral turned balusters

carved wooden reredos commemorating C.B. Scott, ob. 1917.

Pews partly C16, with moulded top rail and blind tracery to ends.

Multi-sided wooden pulpit, with fielded panels: C17 reading desk with fielded panels, spiral balusters to open top.

At west end gallery, on 4 Roman Doric pillars, fielded-panel front, breaking forward in centre.

2 brass C19 candle holders.

C15 octagonal stone font, quatrefoil to side bowl, blind tracery stem, lead lined.

SP0836 : Buckland, St. Michael's Church: The font

© Michael Garlick

Medieval glass in top east and south-east chancel windows: other glass is greenish and possibly largely C17.

Displayed behind glass, it is impossible to photograph without reflections.

© Michael Garlick

Various early C18 and C19 marble wall monuments, that to James Thynne, ob. 1709, particularly fine.

C15 cope in case in north aisle.

SP0836 : Buckland, St. Michael's Church: The c15th Buckland Cope

© Michael Garlick