Image: Swaton, (Lincs) St Michel's church (24343183674)

Description: The church dates from the 12th century onwards and was restored in the late 19th and early 20th century. There is no record of a church in the Domesday book, but a Norman church certainly existed. It is a cruciform church with nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north and south transepts and crossing tower. A major rebuilt resulted in a church with steep pitched roofs, low central tower and possibly aisles, took place around 1230. There was further rebuilding around 100 years later. The nave, which dates from the 14th century, is of three bays and of lofty proportion. It is twice the length of the chancel, and the width of nave and aisles is half its length. The west window is contemporary. The scar of the old Early English roof line can be seen on the east end of the nave. The two-stage tower was originally built for the 13th century chancel and nave, and has an embattled parapet with six crocketted pinnacles. Considerable repair work seems to have been done the south transept in the early 18th century, and the wooden vaulting under the tower dates from after 1848. There is an octagonal font of the Decorated period with ball flower and four-leaf flowers in high relief. There is a 13th century effigy of a lady at the north-west end of the nave, Nicholaa de Camville. The fittings include a good collection of 14th century poppy-head bench ends, and parts of a 14th century screen have been reused in the south transept, otherwise the woodwork is 19th-century.
Title: Swaton, (Lincs) St Michel's church (24343183674)
Credit: Swaton, (Lincs) St Michel's church
Author: Jules & Jenny from Lincoln, UK
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