Description

RACKENFORD CREACOMBE SS 81 NW 5/36 Church of St Michael - - - II Former parish church. Rebuilt 1857, but contains late C11 or early C12 font. Unrendered snecked stone rubble. Slate roofs with coped parapets, moulded stone kneelers and apex crosses. Vestry has polygonal gable end stack. Plan: nave and chancel only with south porch and north vestry. Exterior: gabled bell turret to east end of nave. Steeply pointed moulded stone arch to south porch doorway. 3 pointed arched windows of 2 lights to right of porch, cusped headed priest's doorway and single light window towards east end. 3- light windows to east and west end. Principal windows have human head corbels to the hoodmoulds. Interior: late C11 or early C12 font with tall circular lead-lined bowl on short stem. Otherwise C19 fittings - pulpit benches, communion rails, altar table, tiled floors and commandment boards at west end - are intact. The pulpit has access from the vestry only. Steeply pointed chancel arch with moulded capitals to the engaged shafts. Chancel and nave each have arch- and wind-braced roofs of 5 bays. Walls are plastered.

Listing NGR: SS8181319356

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