St Michael and All Angels, Lambourn

St Michael and All Angels is a Grade I parish church on the Market Place, Lambourn, Berkshire, in the Diocese of Oxford.

Overview

Historic England describes a late Norman cruciform church with fourteenth-, fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century chapels north and south of the chancel. The fabric is render on flint and sarsen with Taynton stone dressings and slate roofs. The four-bay nave has aisles and a clerestory; the arcades have semi-circular arches, plain columns and fluted or leaf capitals. Crossing arches are later and pointed. A Norman doorway survives at the west end. The crossing tower is Norman in its lower stages, fourteenth- and late fifteenth-century above. The arch to St Mary's Chapel from the south transept is carved with a hunt of hounds coursing a hare. The early sixteenth-century Holy Trinity chapel south of St Mary's holds an altar tomb to John Estbury (d.1508). The Essex Chapel north of the chancel has recumbent figures of Sir Thomas and Margaret Essex (1588). The north chancel wall has a late sixteenth-century memorial to Thomas Garrard and his wife.

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture notes that the church existed by 1032, when Cnut granted glebe to it, and that T. L. Donaldson repaired and reseated the building in 1849-50.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1113695
• British Listed Buildings: Church of St Michael and All Angels
• CRSBI: St Michael, Lambourn