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St Michael

St Michael

Whichford

Warwickshire

C12 origins

Architectural Features

with C13

C14 and C15 alterations and additons

Chancel, nave with north aisle, and north-west tower, C12 chancel enlarged C13 and part rebuilt C14

C14 east 6-window of 3 ogee-headed cusped lights with reticulated tracery

two similar C14 windows

Between south windows a C13 priest's doorway with edge-roll surround

To west of south wall a small C13 lancet with chamfered surround and hood mould with labels

C12 nave with C13 north aisle and C14 south chapel and porch

C15 clerestory

3 bays with chamfered plinth to chapel, quoins, moulded eaves cornice (the south side has a carved-head corbel table) and coped parapet to west, south and east

C13 east window to north aisle of 3 trefoiled and staggered lights within an unpierced segmental-pointed arch

Three C13 north aisle windows

small quatrefoil piercing with some carving in small spandrels below

C13 north doorway between windows is now blocked with brick and has a chamfered surround with broach stops above imposts moulded with nail-head ornament

South chapel has C14 east window of 3 lights and intersecting tracery within a double-chamfered surround with hood mould and labels

In south wall, towards east, 2 further C14 windows in similar style as that to east, but of 2 lights

To left of windows a C14 doorway and hood mould with labels

C14 porch forming west end of chapel has pointed doorway with double-chamfered head spinging from moulded capitals

Hood mould with carved-head labels within a C12 round-headed doorway with tympanum, plain except for moulded edges

Round head has chevron, billet and checker ornament and is supported on round shafts with carved capitals and moulded abaci

To west of porch a square-headed window, possibly C13 with C15 head

Hood mould with carved head labels

West window of nave is C14, of 3 cusped lights and reticulated tracery

C15 clerestory has five square-headed windows, each of 3 lights, with hood moulds with labels, To centre of clerestory a sundial with moulded hood

C14 north-west tower of 3 stages with offset diagonal buttresses, splayed string courses and embattled parapet

C14 window above of 2 lights and quatrefoil within a pointed head, Hood mould

In south wall a C13 trefoiled piscina with moulded surround and hood mould

C13 north arcade of 3 bays with round and octagonal piers and responds, all with moulded bases

East respond has foliage carving on moulded capital and octagonal pier has primitive fleur-de-lys carving of moulded capital

C14 archway to south chapel of 2 chamfered orders supported on polygonal responds with moulded bases and capitals

C14 octagonal font

Limestone tomb with quatrefoil-moulded sides, Alabaster top incised with effigy of John Merton, rector, who died 1537 (date not inscribed). In south wall a limestone chest tomb with gothic-style ogee-headed carved panel, but classical pilasters and frieze

Black top with brass to Nicholas Asheton, rector, who died in 1582

Richly carved, with heraldic shield and medallion

Coffin lid with cross carved in low relief

Late C13 tomb recess in north wall of aisle has many-moulded surround and carved head at apex

In tracery of east window of chancel C14 stained glass

with flanking ministering angels

C19 glass below

North and south windows have heraldic glass of Mohun family in quatrefoils, those to north Cl4

Three reset roundels in easternmost north aisle window, probably C14

Fragment of early glass in central aisle window

C15 stained glass in tracery of east window of chapel, representing the head of Christ, the Virgin, the dove of the Holy Spirit and 2 tonsured saints' heads

C15 brass in nave with Latin inscription