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St Michael

Marden

Herefordshire

Mainly C12, restored c1865 and 1909.

Architectural Features

Sandstone rubble, nave roof has plain tiles with stone cross on eastern verge, chancel roof is stone slate.

C17 timber bell-turret with lead sides and slate roof.

Chancel: single-light C12 windows, the two to the south altered into trefoiled ogees in C14.

Nave: blocked 2-centred arch, possibly C13, behind the porch, may have been for access to a projected west tower

north-west window has two c1300 trefoil headed lights, between the two is a blocked C12 single light window at a higher level

Two fonts, one C12 with round bowl, cyclindrical stem and four carved lions with emphasis on their fur on the base

the other on the south-east nave window cill, is a small c1645 urn-shaped font with a gadrooned rim supported by a C15 (?) angel holding a book.

At the west end of the south wall of the nave, striking monument to Elizabeth Cotton, died 1645

broken pediment supported by barley-sugar columns, inscription under segmental arch flanked by a pair of female figures, semi-reclining cadiver beneath.

Corbel head, C14 (?), re-set high up on west wall of nave above C12 font.