St Michael And All Angels

MATERIALS: Coursed rubble sandstone under tile roofs.

The door survives with its original ironwork, comprising strap hinges bisected by large C-scrolls, and an enriched horizontal bar, of the late C12 or early C13.

INTERIOR: The nave has a late medieval 4-bay arched-brace roof with a single tier of windbraces.

In the south-east of the nave is a cusped piscina of late C13 or early C14.

The chancel has a late-medieval 3-bay arched-brace roof incorporating a single tier of windbraces, the only ornamentation of which is central rosette bosses.

The C19 stone reredos has sculptures of Christ and SS Peter and Paul framed by cusped arches with gabled hoods, flanked by octagonal piers surmounted by sculpted angels, and then by 2 floor-length blind arches.

The plain floor tiles in the nave were installed in 1954.

The chancel has red and black tiles, and decorative and encaustic tiles in the sanctuary of 1888.

The porch also has C19 floor tiles.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The font has a round bowl of tooled freestone, on an octagonal base, described as new in 1862.

The wooden C19 polygonal pulpit has Gothic arcading.

There are few memorials.

Above the south door is a simple engraved tablet commemorating Richard Hotchkis On the north wall of the chancel is a marble war-memorial tablet to the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars.

Chancel windows have stained glass.

Alterations later in the C13

beginning of the C14 included new windows in the nave, partly to light a new side chapel, and rebuilding the south chancel wall, which incorporates a piscina and tomb recess of c1300.

The roofs are late medieval.

The belfry and the south porch were probably added in the C16 or C17.

The sanctuary was enriched in 1888, chiefly by a reredos designed by F.R. Kempson, with figures sculpted by Robert Clarke of Hereford.

A Brief Guide to St Michael and All Angels Church, Stanton Long.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Michael and All Angels, Stanton Long, is listed Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * The significant extent of surviving medieval fabric. * The church retains medieval architectural detail of special interest, especially the fine roofs and the south door with its rare-surviving early C13 ironwork. * Post-Reformation detail includes the timber-framed belfry, characteristic of the region.

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register.