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St Michael The Archangel

Brixton Deverill

Wiltshire

C13, C15 tower, restoration of 1730 and 1862

Architectural Features

C14 style ogee-headed window with crocketed hoodmould to second stage of 3-stage tower, offset bellstage has 2-light Perpendicular window with louvres to west side, other side has single pointed window with louvres, cornice to plain parapet with gableted spirelets to corners, inscription records a former spire and renovation in 1852, diagonal buttresses

Good C13 chancel arch with triple shafts, the main one with keel moulding, moulded capitals, well-moulded arch with dogtooth ornament and square chamfered responds

Fine Romanesque stone font with chevron decoration to cylindrical bowl and C17 font cover, in entrance and brought here from Imber, Church of St

Giles (q.v. Imber C.P.). C17 carved panels set on north wall of chancel, possibly from a poorbox

Monuments include a Gothic tablet in nave to Rev

Unsigned stained glass of 1860s, by same company throughout church. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975).

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