Church of St Michael

Dunchideock Church
St Michael: red sandstone church with a slim west tower
St Michael: three-stage Perpendicular west tower; battlemented polygonal stair turret
St Michael: north aisle & nave with rood screen across both; red octagonal piers with moulded octagonal capitals
St Michael: interior of north-east (Lady) chapel showing parclose screen & back of rood screen
St Michael: rood screen, early c15, restored 1892; fan vaulting, doors & cornice
St Michael: detail of c15 rood screen carved with vine & other foliage
St Michael: vestry screen & organ loft of 1964 in memorial to Herbert Read & his wife Ida
St Michael: roof bosses in chancel some with ornamental knots
St Michael: late c19 pulpit by Herbert Read of Exeter; carved figures of Christ & four missionary saints
St Michael: monument to Aaron Baker, first English Governor in India, d.1683
St Michael: shield from the monument to Aaron Baker, d.1683
St Michael: inscription from the monument to Aaron Baker, d.1683
St Michael: memorial slab to Aaron Baker, d.1683, & also to one of his granddaughters d.1695
St Michael: memorial to Martha Bryant of Dunchideock House, d.1697, aged 70; memento mori skull
St Michael: memorial to Major General Sir Stringer Lawrence, d.1775; grey marble obelisk with portrait medallion in white marble
St Michael: modern memorial to members of the Palk family with particular reference to Baronet Robert Palk, Governor of Madras, d.1798