Averham St Michael and All AngelsFeatures and Fittings
Chancel
 Looking
up at
the chancel roof |
Roof
Barrel roof installed in 1865.
The decorative colour scheme was the work of Leslie Moore in 1924.
Choir stalls
 The Choir looking
south-west |
Back panelling, reader’s desk and vicar’s desk appear to be contemporary
with the screen.
Reading desks
Two choir reading desks appear to be older. Each has an attached brass seven
light lamp.
Screen
 Chancel screen |
The 'simple perpendicular' screen divides chancel from the nave.
It carries the quotation “If
you love me fear my Commandments”.
It was possibly renovated in the Hodgson Fowler restoration of 1907.
Other Items
 Piscina |
Two modern kneeling rails.
Wooden lectern.
Wooden seat and prie-dieu.
Low wooden altar rail with gap in the middle.
Modern wooden altar, with wooden chest underneath.
14th century cusped trefoil-headed piscina with fluted drainage hole.
Tiled black and red floor.
Nave
Pictures
Two pictures flank the screen. The one on the right is a Virgin and Child,
possibly a copy of part of a Murillo painting in Dresden museum.
Roof
 Carved
heads
and capital |
 Green
man corbel |
 Woman
corbel |
 Angel
corbel |
 Simple
corbel |
Wooden beamed roof, stained brown; end beams supported by stone corbels (fourteen
in total – motifs including foliage, heads, green man and angels).
Roof
installed in 1858.
Hatchments
 Hatchments on the tower wall |
Two Hatchments, flanking the arch into the tower on the west wall.
The one to the south of the arch has a black field with ermine, on a chief
indented azure three griffins’ heads erased or (Chaplin) impaling argent,
a canton sable (Sutton). Crest a griffin’s head erased argent, ducally
gorged or. Motto “As God Will”. Hatchment of Rev Robert Chaplin,
died 1837, married Anne Georgiana Sutton.
The one to the north has a white/black field, Chaplin impaling Sutton as in
above. Crest a cherub’s head. Motto “As God Will”. Hatchment
of Mrs Anne Georgiana Chaplin, daughter of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st bart., wife
of Rev R Chaplin, died before 1837.
Font
 19th century octagonal font on octagonal base and stem, with crocketed pierced spire cover.
Seating
 Pews and pulpit |
Nineteen fixed pews, dating from the 1907 restoration.
One free-standing non-matching pew.
Other Items
19th century octagonal traceried panelled pulpit.
Under Tower
Two boards listing the Ten Commandments.
One Royal Coat of Arms.
Vestry
Jacobean communion table.
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