The little church of St Michael, East Torrington, is accessed through a farmyard and a garden.

It is the 1848 work of the "rogue" architect S. S. Teulon, though only the crocketed buttresses for the gable of the bellcote show signs of his eccentricity.

Mark Acton, 2012

View from the south-east.

Teulon's windows are Decorated in style.

July 2012

St Michael's stands on a small mound and makes an attractive picture from the south.

July 2012

North side of church.

White's Directory 1872 reports :-

"The Church (St. Michael), which consists of nave, chancel, south porch and turret with one bell, is a neat stone structure, rebuilt by subscription in 1850, at a cost of £900, and containing 80 sittings.

The benefice is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £7. 10s. 10d., and annexed to West Torrington vicarage, jointly worth £300 per annum, in the incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Wimberley Mossman, B.A., who has 30 acres of glebe, and resides at West Torrington"

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Viewed from the west. 

An entry in Kelly's Directory 1913 reads :-

"The church of St. Michael, erected in 1850 on the site of an earlier church, is an edifice of stone in the late Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell :

there are 80 sittings.

The register dates from the year 1564.

The living is a rectory, with West Torrington vicarage annexed, joint net yearly value £202, including 41 acres of glebe, in the gift of Christopher H. Turnor esq. and held since 1911 by the Rev. Marshal Seth Harold Spink, who resides at West Torrington"

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Close-up view of the bellcote shows the crocketed detail introduced by Teulon and noted by Pevsner.

July 2012

The interior of St Micael's church, looking into the chancel.

The reticulated tracery of the east window is in typical style of the Decorated period (early 14th century).  It is of course part of Teulon's 1848 restoration.

July 2012

Interior viewed through the west window.

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Label stop over window in south wall of nave.

July 2012