Martin Nicholson's Cemetery Project
St Michael and All Angels, Castle Frome, Herefordshire
The Church of St. Michael is almost
entirely Norman, discreetly restored in 1878. It has three medieval bells,
sadly not ringable at the moment. The church’s crowning glory is
undoubtedly its 12th
century font, carved from a single piece of rock and described by Pevsner
as "one of the masterworks of Romanesque sculpture in England".
An alabaster knight and his wife with
their offspring represented around the sides of the monument. Dating to about
1510, the chest tomb of Sir Richard and Lady Croft, transferred from a
now-demolished side chapel to the north of the chancel, is clearly reassembled
from badly aligned parts of the original.
Martin Nicholson - Shropshire, United
Kingdom.
This page was last updated on September
29th 2014.
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