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St Michael

St Michael

Wesham

Lancashire

The crocketed octagonal spire rises to 150 feet (40 feet more than the roughly contemporary Roman Catholic church of St. John the Evangelist (q.v. under Ribby Road).

Architectural Features

The aisled 3-bay chancel has Decorated details in keeping with the 5-light east window) which has reticulated tracery in a deeply moulded reveal (possibly C14).

There are several fittings of interest: churchwardens' box pews (east of south door) with Gothic details and poppy heads, dated 1770 on a brass plate which is probably not in situ

C14 tomb recess (in south east corner) with pierced curvilinear tracery

wall tablet above the recess, with Baroque scroll work above a winged skull framing a long epitaph, partly in rhyming couplets, to commemorate Thomas Clifton of Lytham Hall who died in 1688 (though Roman Catholics, the Cliftons leased the rectory lands from Christ Church College, Oxford)

two tier brass chandelier suspended over nave.