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Church of St Michael's

A Grade I Listed Building in St Albans, Hertfordshire

  • St Michaels

  • 'St. Michael's Church,' St Albans, May 2018

  • 'St Michael's Church,' St Albans, May 2018

  • 'St Michael's Church,' St Albans, May 2018

  • St Michael: founded 948; Saxon & medieval building; Victorian west-end, tower & porch

  • St Michael: north aisle with Decorated & Perpendicular windows; clerestory added c13, one Early English lancet window

  • St Michael: chancel from the east; Victorian c14 style Decorated east window of reticulated tracery

  • St Michael: nave looking east; pierced arches on the north side, partially blocked ones on the south side; late Elizabethan pulpit

  • St Michael: c12 aisle with heavy, square pillars, c15 nave roof

  • St Michael: chancel with late c10 Saxon walls

  • St Michael: south chapel altar

  • St Michael: Perpendicular, octagonal font with quatrefoil decoration

  • St Michael: remains of c15 Doom painting showing the dead rising from their graves

  • St Michael: Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, philosopher & statesman, d.1626; seated asleep in chair

  • St Michael: inscription from the memorial to Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor, d.1626

  • St Michael: John Pecok & wife Maud (Weyland), c.1370

  • St Michael: inscription from the Pecok brass, c.1370

  • St Michael: knight of the Pecock family, c.1380

  • St Michael: knight of the Pecock family, c.1380; transitional from mail to plate armour

  • St Michael: civilian within the head of an ogee-foliated cross; c.1400

  • St Michael: civilian within the head of an ogee-foliated cross, c.1400; detail

  • St Michael: inscription to Henry Gape, d.1558, & wife Florens

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Entry Name: Church of St Michael's

Listing Date: 8 May 1950

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1103089

English Heritage Legacy ID: 163415

ID on this website: 101103089

Location: St Michael's Church, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3

County: Hertfordshire

District: St. Albans

Electoral Ward/Division: Verulam

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: St Albans

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: St Albans St Michael

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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