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Key Image St Michael and All Angels
Church Lane
WR12 7NE Stanton
United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican
Congregation: Stanton and Snowshill (Diocese of Gloucester, Archdeaconry of Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and Winchcombe)
Geogr. Coordinates: 52.00726° N, 1.90103° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 1150
Architectural style: Gothic
Building type: Hall church
Description: Three-nave, predominantly gothic hall church with norman arcades; west tower
Name derivation: After the archangel Michael
Building material
  • Cotswold limestone
Noteworthy
  • Hagioscope (“squint”, hole in the wall with view on the altar)
Pulpit
  • Gothic pulpit (1375, currently used as ambo)
Font
  • Font (15th cent.)
Noteworthy
  • Rood screen and reredos (Ninian Comper; 1915)
History:
12th cent.:   Construction of the Norman church (probably at the location of an earliear Anglo-Saxon church)
13th cent.:   Construction of the transept
15th cent.:   Addition of south aisle, porch, tower and spire
Important persons:
Artist:  Comper, Ninian (1864–1960, Scottish architect of the Gothic Revival)
Patron:  Michael (Archangel)
Sources
Surman, Richard: Betjeman’s Best British Churches, Collins, London 2011, p. 281
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