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St Michael

St Michael

Dinder

Somerset

Norman establishment, some C14 work, rebuilt C15, restored 1872 with rebuilt chancel and added organ chamber.

Architectural Features

Embattled 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, 2-light bell chamber windows with Somerset-type tracery, stone grilles, topping embattled stair turret, clock, west window, west door.

Three bay embattled nave, each aerlon enriched by a foiled niche, gargoyles, pinnacles, 2-light windows, 2 with square heads and one with a pointed head.

Porch with parapet and coping, diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, shafted outer door opening, benched interior on flagstone floor, C19 roof on corbels carved as heads.

Three-bay aisle, embattled in conforming style to nave, buttresses, gargoyles, pinnacles, 3-light pointed-head windows, door.

to nave and aisle on corbels carved as angels.

chamfered chancel and tower arches, possibly earlier than the C15.

Norman dragon heads reset in the chancel over a south window.

Good stone pulpit dated 1621, with rosettes, fleur-de-lis and symbols of the Trinity.

Octagonally Perpendicular font, a quatrefoil to each face.

Five late C18-early C19 monuments under tower

elaborate mid C19 monument over north door.

Window to south of nave with reset medieval glass fragaents

8 late C19 stained glass windows.