St Michael & All Angels, Barton Turf
St Michael & All Angels, Barton Turf
St Michael and All Angels is a Grade I parish church on Church Road, Barton Turf, Norfolk, standing about a kilometre south-west of the village, in the Diocese of Norwich.
- Location
- Barton Turf, Norfolk
- Country
- England
- County
- Norfolk
- City / town
- Barton Turf
- Address
- Church Road, Barton Turf, Norfolk, NR12 8YU
- Postcode
- NR12 8YU
- Built
- C14 nave and aisles; C15 west tower; aisles and chancel remodelled C15
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Norwich
- Parish
- Barton Turf St Michael
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular
- Materials
- Flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs
- Grid reference
- TG 343 218
- Opening hours
- We are open between the hours of 9am and 5pm.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England records a fourteenth-century nave and aisles, a fifteenth-century west tower, aisles and chancel remodelled in the fifteenth century (a bequest of 1494), and a south chancel chapel of 1440–45. The church was restored in 1890 and 1934. The fabric is flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The three-stage tower has flushwork diagonal buttresses, a crenellated flushwork parapet and square ringing-chamber panels of cusped four-petal tracery. A two-storey fifteenth-century north porch of knapped flint has a tierceron vault with carved bosses.
The church is best known for its c.1440 chancel screen, coved to the west with a skeleton vault. The listing describes painted dado panels of court quality: on the north, St Apollonia, St Citha (Osyth), St Raphael, St Gabriel, Dominations and Seraphim; on the south, Cherubim, Principalities, Thrones, Archangels, Angels and St Barbara. A further screen to the south chapel shows St Edmund, Edward the Confessor, St Olave and Henry VI. There is an early-fourteenth-century octagonal font and brasses of the mid and late fifteenth century.