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St Michael And All Angels

Picklescott

Shropshire

SO 4598 WOOLSTASTON C.P. WOOLSTASTON 10/105 Church of St. Michael 13.6.58 and All angels - II* Parish church.

Architectural Features

Late C12 or early C13, restored in 1864-6 by the Rev. E. Donald Carr under the supervision of William Hill of Smethcott.

South side: C13 chamfered lancet to left and a pair of chamfered C19 lancets off- centre to right

C13 chamfered-arched doorway off-centre to left has C19 nail-studded boarded door with wrought-iron strap hinges and timber framed gabled porch with cusped braces, brackets supporting wall plates, 4-light side windows and pair of wooden gates.

North side: pair of chamfered lancets to left and gabled ,vestry to right including a pair of chamfered lancets to front with carved segmental tympanum reset in wall above, boarded door with chamfered reveals in left-hand return front, and stack with square base, chamfered octagonal shaft and cap with trefoiled gables to each face.

Chancel: possibly C17 buttress to south with 2 offsets.

South side: C13 chamfered lancet to right and round-arched priest's doorway to left with C19 nail-studded boarded door.

North side: restored C13 chamfered lancet to left and C19 paired chamfered lancets to.right.

Interior: CL9 trussed-rafter nave roof (said to incorporate remains of medieval roof) with braced collars and moulded cornice on brackets

Many fittings by William Hill including: hexagonal wooden pulpit with arcading consisting of triple shafts and round arches, carved frieze, and stairs with barleysugar post

carved wooden lectern

elaborately carved wooden altar rails with pierced spandrls

baptistery formed at west end in C19 with benches of 3 sides and font consisting of low C12 basin font and taller C12 font-standing inside with C19 wooden cover (one of the fonts is said to have come from the former chapel at Womerton).

Carved tablet on right-hand splay of baptistery south window, inscribed: "(h)eare lieth THE BODY/(of) Thomas WILDINGS/WHO DEPARTED THIS/LIFE APRIL THE 21/1681)".

Stained glass: that in west window by David Evans of Shrewsbury and that in east window of 1906, in memory of E. D. Carr.

A church is first mentioned here in 1272.

The church of St. Michael retains much medieval fabric and was well restored in the C19, the massing of forms being particularly successful when seen from the south-east.