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St Michael And All Angels

Brinkworth

Wiltshire

C14 origin (chancel)

Architectural Features

C15 and thorough 1889 restoration

four 3-light C15 windows under pointed heads with hoodmoulds

Chancel south side has one 2-light C15 window under flat head with face stops to hoodmould to left and a pointed-arched doorway with plank door and a single-cusped-light to right

Three-light C15 east window under pointed head with restored tracery and C19 face stops to hoodmould

Three- stage tower with moulded string courses, diagonal buttresses with set-offs and gargoyles below embattled parapet

West facade has pointed-arched C15 doorway within square surround with hoodmould: plank door

Above this a 3-light C15 window under pointed head

C15 wagon roof to nave

C15 roofs with carved bosses to aisles and C19 barrel vault to chancel

Sections of C15 painting to arches of nave arcades and nave north wall

Early C14 font at tower door below gallery with octagonal base and bowl with late C16 pyramidal wooden cover

Badly decayed wood panel William and Mary coat of arms on vestry west wall, further royal arms on canvas of 1728 above south door

Fine 1748 wall monument to John Weeks: architectural composition with fluted Ionic half-columns and broken pediment

C19 oil painting of avenging angel on east wall of north aisle

Elegant 1630 wooden pulpit supported on carved gryphons and lions and with backboard framed by a carved lion and unicorn

Late C19 stained glass to third window east in north aisle

glass to chancel north and south windows to the west

1900 glass to single-light chancel windows to the east

Fine 1633 altar table with carved balusters and round-arched arcading.

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