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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Bodenham Moor

Herefordshire

Circa 1200 origins, altered

Architectural Features

extended early C14 with further alterations of late C14 to early C15, chancel rebuilt and shortened circa 1750.

West tower: early C14 and of three stages with moulded plinth band and offsets to upper stages.

Nave: C12, aisles added early C14, the easternmost bay of each aisle was altered or heightened to form a transept, circa 1400.

At the western end are the remains of two wall memorials.

The north aisle windows flank the gabled C14 north porch, which has a pointed archway of two orders, and a roof with swept wind-braces and an arch-braced collar truss above the north doorway

The north transept has an ogee-arched doorway beneath the east window and the south transept has a wall memorial (illegible) beneath its east window, to the right of which is an ogee-arched squint.

It has a reset early C14 east window of three lights with reticulated tracery and a hoodmould.

On the south side are two 2-light windows with hoodmoulds and returns flanking a reset early C14 blocked doorway.

There is the remains of a C14 piscina in the north transept and also in the east respond of the south arcade with a cusped ogee-arched head.

The octagonal stone font is C14 and has cusped ogee-arched blind panels on the sides of the basin.

The pulpit is C19.

In the north aisle is a parish chest inscribed: "1684 Ex do HB".

Memorials: in the north wall of the chancel is a tomb recess of the early C14 with the reclining figures of a woman and child.

Above is an obelisk-shaped memorial to Rev Josiah Smart died 1769, by T Symonds of Hereford, a Gothic-style memorial to Henrietta Thorneycroft, died 1844, and a sarcophagus memorial with a swagged urn relief to Nicholas Mann, died 1811, by Preece of Hereford.

On the south side of the chancel is a brass inscription panel with a moulded stone surround to John Pember, died 1677, and also another memorial with a festooned urn relief to Wilson Bewicke, died 1799.

There are also two large illegible memorials at the west end of the south aisle, one of which is obelisk-shaped and by T Powell of Leominster.

Glass: east window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne: (RCHM Herefs II, p 12-15