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Church of St Michael the Archangel

A Grade I Listed Building in Mere, Wiltshire

  • St Michael's, Mere, Wiltshire

  • St Michael: from the north-west; mostly Decorated; straight headed windows of intersecting tracery

  • St Michael: c15 Perpendicular tower (124 feet) with octagonal buttresses & turret pinnacles

  • St Michael: c14 Decorated north porch of two storeys with niche above entrance; c.1180 statue of St Michael killing a dragon

  • St Michael: Perpendicular arcades, chancel arch & clerestory; piers of four shafts & hollows; c15 rood screen of six lights per division; coving & loft are c19 replacements

  • St Michael: late c13 chancel; Decorated arcade to north chapel

  • St Michael: Bettesthorne chapel south of chancel; built c.1350 as a chantry; Perpendicular east window; chapel screen on left

  • St Michael: glass in the Bettesthorne chapel; upper section of c.1330 quatrefoil lights depicting St Nicholas, St Martin, St Christopher & a pope

  • St Michael: tomb (probably) of John third lord Stourton, 1485; shields in cusped quatrefoils

  • St Michael: John Bettesthorne, 1398; founder of chantry chapel

  • St Michael: John Bettesthorne, 1398; rich armour decoration, chain mail links

  • St Michael: horizontal, embroidered baldric, dagger & sword from the brass of John Bettesthorne, 1398

  • St Michael: inscription from the brass of John Bettesthorne, 1398; set upside down, it includes a Dominical letter showing day of week

  • St Michael: John Berkeley of Beaverstone, d.1426; plate armour

  • Church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere, Wiltshire

  • South porch to church of St Michael the Archangel, Mere, Wiltshire

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Entry Name: Church of St Michael the Archangel

Listing Date: 6 January 1966

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1130755

English Heritage Legacy ID: 320165

ID on this website: 101130755

Location: St Michael the Archangel Church, Mere, Wiltshire, BA12

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Mere

Built-Up Area: Mere

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Mere St Michael the Archangel

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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