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St Michael

St Michael

Aughton

Lancashire

C14 with mid C12

Architectural Features

C13 remains, C15 north arcade,

mid C16 north aisle.

Restored 1876 when C15 chancel rebuilt.

The inner doorway is C15, moulded and pointed.

To the right of the porch, partly covered by a buttress, are the remains of a mid C12 doorway, of 2 plain orders with angle shafts and scalloped capitals.

The east window is of 5 lights with transom and tracery under a Tudor-arched head.

The nave roof is C16 and of 8 bays, with arch-braces down to short wall posts and up to collars with central pendant bosses.

The C19 chancel roof is of 6 bays with arch-braced collar trusses rising from corbels alternately carved with angels.

The C19 timber pulpit is elaborately carved with tracery and figures.