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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Hallaton

Leicestershire

Parish Church, C12-C13, with additions in C14

Architectural Features

C15.

C13 tower of three stages, the lowest of ironstone the rest limestone, with slim buttresses.

Corbel table and heavy C13 broach spire with stumpy pinnacles at angles and two tiers of lucarnes.

Early C14 south aisle is ashlar faced to sill level then ironstone, embattled parapet with gargoyles, and buttresses.

Doorway in C15 porch with round shaft to outer arch and buttresses in plane of coped gable.

Two coffin lids, probably C12 or C13 with crosses in low relief set against its internal east wall.

C14 inner doorway, shafted with corbel heads.

Fabric probably C13.

Large Rococo memorial against the north wall, to the Reverend George Fenwicke, d.1760

C14 north aisle, incorporating masonry (visible in west wall) of narrower C12 aisle.

3-light Decorated windows and doorway in C15 porch, the inner arch roll moulded and hollow chamfered.

North arcade is the earlier, C12.

The third shaft is octagonal belonging to an added C13 eastern bay.

South arcade is C14, double chamfered arches on octagonal shafts.

Squared C15 clerestory lights in splays with C18 glazing to north, paired foiled lights to south.

C13 tower arch with clustered shafts and triple chamfered arch.

Its purpose is unknown, but may have been associated with external pulpit, or sacristy.

Stained glass: in the chancel, the east window of 1899 is by Kempe as is one south west window and the east window of the south aisle.

These latter are of 1882, and feature in the chancel window angels playing musical instruments, and in the aisle window arch angels, all with peacock feathered wings.

Other chancel windows in a medieval style of 1820 and 1825, and in a Preraphaelite style to the north of 1886 and 1924, by Powell.

Two brightly coloured windows in medieval style in the north aisle, c1870.

Hatchment in south aisle, various C18 war memorials in chancel and in spandrels of north arcade.

C13 font, a round drum-like basin with four shafts, forming angles

Saxon tomb slab in north aisle, with interlaced decoration.