Listed Building: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (105026)

SY 59 SW ASKERWELL NALLER'S LANE 3/6 Parish Church of St Michael 5.9.60 GV II* Parish Church. C15 west tower. Nave and north aisle, chancel and south porch rebuilt 1858, CA (tablet on south porch) in Perpendicular style. Random rubble walls with dressed stone bands. Slate roof with stone gable-copings. West tower, C15, of 3 stages with set-back buttresses and set-offs. Moulded plinth. West door- way with moulded jambs 4-centred head and a shield in each spandrel. Plinth moulding carried up over doorhead. 2-leaf C20 plank door. Half-octagonal south stair-turret. Nave of 3 bays without clear storey, windows are 3-light trefoil-cusped with panel tracery over. Returned labels. Chancel of one bay, 2-light window of the same style. East window of 3-lights with a quatrefoil in the centre of the head. South porch, pointed-arch entrance with moulded jambs. Inner doorway, pointed arch with a straight chamfer and pyramid stops. 2-leaf plank door with ornamental strap-hinges, C19. North aisle, C19, under a pentice slate roof, simple 2-light windows with quatrefoil heads. Interior: 3 bays. North arcade on octagonal piers with moulded capitals, and chamfered and quirked arches. Tower arch has panelled jambs and soffit, C15. Roofs: of arch- braced collar-beam type carried on stone corbels, C19. Fittings: font, late C12, stone circular bowl decorated with continuous intersecting arches on colonettes with imposts. Stone cylindrical stem with interlace cable and spur feet. Brass indent, in tower, stone slab (top part missing) with indent of foliated cross and marginal inscription in separate capitals. Slab forms part of tomb stone to Thomas de Luda and Eleanor his wife, c.1320, formerly in Abbotsbury Abbey. Inscription records gift of Holywell to the abbey. Other half of slab in Whitechurch Canonicorum church. Image: on west wall of the tower, carved stone panel of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John, C15. RCHM Dorset I, p 12 (1). Listing NGR: SY5299492588

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