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St Michael

St Michael

Cleeton

Shropshire

C14 with C17 additions and alterations, C19 restoration.

Architectural Features

Plain-tile roofs.

Nave north door blocked leaving C12 round arch exposed.

South doorway has plain tympanum under bold roll-moulding set in recessed semicircular panel over tympanum, with scalloped capitals with cable-moulding, column shafts set in recess on C12 base to west and modified later base to east.

Door is studded, boarded and cross-boarded with iron strap hinges, bearing date 1679.

South porch: tiled gabled porch with round-arched entrance in stone walls dated 1662.

Plain late C12 tower with Transitional west lancet and restored battlements.

C17 carved timber panelling around altar.

Late C12 pointed single-stepped tower arch set on hollow chamfered abaci and debased flat-leafed capitals, below which a diagonal inset cuts across the stepping of the responds.

C12 plain circular font.

Armorial tablet to Edward Mytton d. 1683.

Inscription over south porch entrance: "This porch was built by John Hil, Gent and Ursula his widow 1662".