← Database
St Milburga

St Milburga

Broom

Warwickshire

C12 and C13

Architectural Features

Old tile roofs

with some C20 tile to north

To the north one lancet and a window of 2 tiny steep lancets with a shaft and head, cut from a single block of yellow Campden stone, possibly C12 or earlier

Interior: boarded wagon roofs panelled with thin ribs and carved bosses, and 2 decorative roof arches of thin elaborate Gothic openwork to chancel, probably early C19

Early C15 oak screens: lower part of chancel screen and part of side screen to chapel survive and have moulded rail and muntins

C19 encaustic tile floor

Chapel has fragments of old stained glass re-set in windows

Brass: chest tomb in centre of chapel with very fine brasses to Thomas de Cruwe (died 1411) and his wife

Figures under ogee-headed canopies with inscriptions, badges and coats of arms, all intact

Very finely detailed . Said to be 'the finest brasses in the County' (Buildings of England). 2 small late C16 memorial brasses

Nave has C19 font. (V.C.H. Warwickshire III p.191