Church of St Michael\nand All Angels\n(formerly listed as\nTQ 24 SE 1/14 21.6.48 Church of St Michael)\nII*\n\nBuilt in 1867. Architect William Burges. Style is Early C13 French Gothic. Chancel,\nnorth vestry, nave, western narthex and south-west tower, surmounted by pyramidal timber\nspire covered in oak shingles. Walls of undressed local stone laid in thin regular\ncourses. Bath stone used for dressings. Plate tracery in wide windows of Nave, the\nwest window a large wheel window with sculpture representing the Four Ages of Man,\nSt Michael and the Dragon carved over west doorway. Timber narthex resting on stone\nplinth and having tiled lean-to roof. Nave and chancel have steeply pitched roofs\ncovered with fishscale tiles. Internally the roofs are of pine, of 2 centred arch\nform, pointed, boarded in, with tie beams and tall king posts.\n(See Eastlake \"History of the Gothic Revival\" pages 416-417).\n\n\nListing NGR: TQ2741940102