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WHEATHILL

SO67NW SILVINGTON
482-1/7/202 Church of St Michael
12/11/54

GV II*

Church. C12 and C14 with C17 additions and alterations, C19
restoration. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Plain-tile
roofs.
PLAN: chancel, nave with south porch, and west tower
asymmetrically set against nave. Nave in 2 widths, having been
extended into part of chancel.
EXTERIOR: chancel with restored paired cusped lancets on east
and south sides. Nave north door blocked leaving C12 round
arch exposed. 2 restored paired cusped lancets on both north
and south sides of nave. South doorway has plain tympanum
under bold roll-moulding set in recessed semicircular panel
over tympanum, with scalloped capitals with cable-moulding,
column shafts set in recess on C12 base to west and modified
later base to east. Door is studded, boarded and cross-boarded
with iron strap hinges, bearing date 1679. South porch: tiled
gabled porch with round-arched entrance in stone walls dated
1662. Plain late C12 tower with Transitional west lancet and
restored battlements.
INTERIOR: plastered ceilings and walls. Restored pointed
chancel arch. C17 carved timber panelling around altar. Late
C12 pointed single-stepped tower arch set on hollow chamfered
abaci and debased flat-leafed capitals, below which a diagonal
inset cuts across the stepping of the responds. C12 plain
circular font. Armorial tablet to Edward Mytton d.1683.
Inscription over south porch entrance: "This porch was built
by John Hil, Gent and Ursula his widow 1662".
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: 1958-: 289).




Listing NGR: SO6210779852

Source: English Heritage

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