Information for record number MWA609:
Church of St Michael, Warmington

Summary The Church of St Michael which was originally built during the Medieval period. It was largely restored during the Imperial period. The Church is situated on Church Hill, Warmington.
What Is It?  
Type: Church, Nave, Aisle, Tower, Churchyard, Burial
Period: Modern - Modern (1100 AD - 2050 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Warmington
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 40 47
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Listed Building (Grade: I)
Sites & Monuments Record
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5 Church. 12th century nave; late 13th century south aisle, early-mid 14th century north aisle, chancel, vestry and priest's room; 14th and 15th century tower. Regular coursed ironstone. Tile roofs with coped gable parapets; nave and aisles have moulded parapets. Aisled nave, chancel, west tower, north and south porches, north vestry and priest's room. Decorated style. Three bay nave and aisles, three bay chancel. Chancel has plinth and sill courses, splayed to east, moulded to south. Buttresses with offsets. Renewed four light east window has Decorated tracery and old hood mould with fragments of head stops. Hood moulds throughout. Tracery largely renewed. South side has ogee-arched priest door of two moulded orders. Two eastern square-headed windows of cinqfoiled round-arched lights with sunk spandrels. Narrow two-light square-headed western window has reticulated tracery. Hood moulds. Main entrance on south side. South porch has diagonal buttresses. arch of two hollow-chamfered and moulded orders. stone benches inside. Fine late 13th century Decorated south doorway of many orders of hollow chamfers, roll mouldings and fillets, 19th century studded door has old strap hinges. South aisle has diagonal buttress. East end has splayed plinth. Threee light east window has bar tracery of three circles. South side has two light eastern window similar to those of chancel, but with roll-moulded mullions. Two light western window has cusped Y-tracery. Three light west window has Geometric tracery with roll-moulded tracery. North porch has diagonal buttresses. Doorway of two chamfered orders. North doorway of two moulded orders with 19th century plank door. North aisle has splayed plinth to east. East angle and west diagonal buttresses. Three light east window has two lancets and wider shorter lancet and starred circle. North side has two ogee-arched two light eastern windows with curvilinear tracery. Western window has Y-tracery. Three west window of three trefoiled ogee lights. Two storey vestry and priest's room has splayed plinth, stepped down on north side. North buttresses rise into crocketed pinnacles flanking north gable. East side has barred moulded square window, possibly formerly mullioned, and two light window above. North side has similar square window. First floor has two light Decorated window with blind tracery. North-west re-entrant angle has stair projection. tower of three stages. Double-splayed plinth and string courses continued across diagonal buttresses to two stages. West door has two chamfered and moulded orders. 19th century ribbed door. Decorated west window of two trefoiled lights. Two light Perpendicular bell openings have old stone louvres. Cornice and parapet. Interior: chancel is plastered. Largely renewed piscina has wide trefoiled ogee arch and triangular shafts with battlements and pinnacles. Three heavily restored sedilia have cinqfoiled crocketed ogee arches and triangular detached shafts with carved heads, battlements and pinnacles; gables to left and right. Ogee north doorway of three moulded orders, and hood mould. 16th-17th century latticed back plank door. Small ogee lancet to priest's chamber has old iron grille and board shutter. 19th century arched braced roof with carved heads and stone corbels, ashlar posts and moulded wallplates 13th century. Chancel arch of two moulded orders with central fillet. Simple moulded impost and low responds. Nave has three bay arcades. East bays similar to chancel arch. The other bays are Transitional with circular piers and responds, and scalloped capitals. The north arcade has square unmoulded arches with square hood mould. and low square pedestals. The south arcade has slightly chamfered arches, much larger and deeper capitals and roll-moulded bases on high square pedestals. 19th century wagon roof with ashlar posts. tower built a little way into nave. Very tall tower arch of two chamfered orders, the outer segmental-pointed, the inner dying into the wall. South aisle has upper four centred east doorway and steps to former rood loft. Aisles have 19th century wagon roofs. vestry has east piscina with trefoiled ogee head and hood mould. stone winder stairs to priest's chamber, with old lattice-backed plank doors at top and bottom. Priest's room has plain square-headed former fireplace. Mid-late 19th century two-bay barrel arched braced roof. Fittings: front possibly 13th century. Cylindrical bowl with roll moulding and square roll-moulded stem. Lower part of 15th century oak screen has moulded martins and traceried panels. Pulpit of 1871. Pews, altar rails, and encaustic tile sanctuary floor of circa 1870. Stained glass: east window 1870; chancel south east and central windows c.1889 and 1890. Nave and aisles floor raised late 20th century.
1 Chancel, North chapel with a priest's chamber above it, nave, North and South aisles and porches and a West tower. The nave dates from the 12th century. No detail is left to indicate its exact date but it was of the proportion of two squares, common in the early 12th century. A North aisle was added in the mid 12th century and a South aisle was added in the late 12th century. After about a century a considerable enlargement was begun. The nave was lengthened East and a new chancel built. The West tower dates to about 1340-5. There have been many repairs and renovations, notably in 1867 and 1871.
6 Disarticulated human remains and a skull possibly part of an in-situ burial were recorded during works to the Church wall in 2013.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Victoria County History, vol 5, Warwickshire
Author/originator: Salzman L F (ed)
Date: 1965
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Volume/Sheet: 5
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Buildings of England: Warwickshire
Author/originator: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A
Date: 1966
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: Warwicks
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Descriptive Text
Title: LBL
Author/originator: DoE
Date: 1987
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Volume/Sheet: Stratford
   
Source No: 5
Source Type: Statuatory List
Title: National Heritage List for England
Author/originator: Historic England
Date:
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
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Volume/Sheet:
   
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Warmington Church
Copyright: Warwickshire County Council
Date: 1900s
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