Building record 0414200000 - ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS CHURCH, ASTON CLINTON

Grade II*. Parish Church. C14 and C15 restored. Flint with some clunch, limestone dressings. E. wall cement rendered Embattled west tower and aisles; chancel, N. and S. porches the latter raised to 2 storeys C19. Steep tiled roof to nave, chancel and porches. Square headed C15 windows to aisles; pointed traceried C14 windows to chancel, all restored. Interior: 3 bay arcades, C13 to S., C14 to N., with alternating octagonal and circular piers (S. arcade with broaches at bases of arches. C14 chancel aisle, and ornate sedilia and piscina and 'Easter Sepulchre' recess opposite, all with ogee arches. C14 tower arch. Upper part of tower built 1800. Fragment of wall painting in chancel. RCHM I p.18 MON.1 (B6).


Parish Church of St Michael and All Angels. This is built of flint with stone dressings, the chancel and lower stage of the West tower are covered with rough-cast. The roofs of the chancel, nave and North porch are tiled, the others are lead-covered. The irregular setting of the C13th South arcade possibly indicates that a C12th nave of two squares was lengthened towards the West ca.1270 when the South aisle was built. Ca.1340, the North aisle was added, and the chancel rebuilt, with a vestry on the North side, since destroyed. The clerestory may have been added at about the same time. In the first half of the C15th, the South aisle was widened and the South porch was built. The West tower may have been added in the C14th, but was rebuilt in 1800, and has since been restored. In 1867, the church was restored and the stonework retooled. The North porch, the upper part of the South porch, and all of the buttresses are modern (B4).
The original C12th church was probably an aisleless nave and chancel. In the present South aisle is preserved the basin of a C12th font of crude workmanship ornamented with alternate raised and sunken rosettes (B3).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.