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Church of St Michael

A Grade I Listed Building in Blackawton, Devon

  • St Michael: church set in centre of village; c14 chancel, the earliest part of the church; renewed Perpendicular east window

  • St Michael: south side showing four-centred renewed Perpendicular windows

  • St Michael: west tower with diagonal buttresses & polygonal stair turret in the centre; battlemented with no pinnacles

  • St Michael: interior viewed from the gallery; Beer stone arcades. B-type piers with standard capitals

  • St Michael: screen with broad four-light sections

  • St Michael: coving from screen

  • St Michael: panels on screen dado with symbols of Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon

  • St Michael: Norman circular font

  • St Michael: brass to Nicholas Forde, d.1582, & wife Margaret (nee Fountain of Bawcombe), d.1588

  • St Michael: brass to Nicholas Forde, d.1582

  • St Michael: Margaret (nee Fountain), d.1588, wife of Nicholas Forde, d.1582

  • St Michael: arms from the brass to Nicholas Forde, d.1582

  • St Michael: acrostic memorial to Grace Scuer, 1669

  • St Michael: tomb chest to Richard Sparke, d.1700

  • St Michael: black lid on the monument to Richard Sparke, d.1700

  • St Michael: memorial to Jenny Cholwich, d.1793, husband William, d.1810, & her infant granddaughter, d.1814

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Entry Name: Church of St Michael

Listing Date: 26 January 1967

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1108023

English Heritage Legacy ID: 99809

ID on this website: 101108023

Location: St Michael's Church, Blackawton, South Hams, Devon, TQ9

County: Devon

District: South Hams

Civil Parish: Blackawton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Blackawton St Michael

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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