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St Michael and All Angels

St Michael And All Angels

Warfield, Berkshire

Architectural Features

C13, of which the north aisle remains

North chapel added mid C14

Nave and transept rebuilt mid C15

Coped gabled roof of different heights with mixture of plain and old clay tiles with crested ridges

Easternmost window late C15 with three cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery under three-centred head

On either side of this window are fragments of two blocked C13 lancets

Second window is C15 with two cinquefoiled lights with small pierced spandrel under two centred head with moulded label

Third window is small C13 lancet

Between first and second window is early C13 doorway with ogee head under square lintel with foiled spandrels

At west end is large C16 window of five cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in plain square head

Two outer windows are C14 with two cinquefoiled lights with quatrefoiled spandrels

The east window is late C15 and has three cinquefoiled lights with interlacing tracey

Nave, south front, has two windows, easternmost C15 with two cinquefoiled lights

Other window is late C15 with three cinquefoiled lights under plain, square head

Between these windows late C15 doorway, with moulded jambs and four-centred arch under square head

South transept has two-light east window and three-light south window, both C19, and of C15 style

Chancel has C14 east window of five cinquefoiled lights with flamboyant tracery in two-centred head

North window and four south windows are C14, of two-lights with cinquefoiled heads and pierced spandrels

INTERIOR: fine C15 nave roof of five-bays, with chamfered arch braced collars, moulded clasped purlins and large moulded tie beams

Between east respond of arcade and north-east window large C14 recess with vaulted soffit of which only part remains

West of C19 stone screen, behind altar, C14 piscina, three sedilia divided by moulded mullions with pinnacled buttresses and cinquefoiled ogee arches with carved spandrels, foliated crockets and finials

In north wall of north chapel are three fine C14 shallow, arched recesses, apices of arches with trefoiled spandrels and foliated crockets and finials

East end of north wall of aisle has rood stair that leads to rood loft, reconstructed in C15

Parts of original rood loft are incorporated into C15 screen to north Chapel has four-bays with doorway in centre

MONUMENTS: on south wall of chancel is small Renaissance monument to Thomas Williamson d.1611

Above inscription are kneeling figures of himself and his wife with their children in background

In south-east corner of north chapel is small early C17 wall monument without inscription or date with kneeling effigies of man and his wife and children

On opposite side is similar monument, also without inscription, and with figures of a man and two women kneeling

STAINED GLASS: some pieces of late C14 glass in tracery of east window of chancel representing principal events of our Lord's life

In lights of C19 south window of south transept is some restored C15 glass consisting of six figures