The Anglican Church of St Michael at

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in the Cotswold District of

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, England was built in 12th century. It is a grade I

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History

The church was first constructed in the 12th century with the

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being added in the 13th. The tower was built in the 15th century. The church belonged to a convent at Fontenay in France and then

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. Between 1833 and 1883 the church had a west gallery. The parish and

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are now part of the

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Architecture

The

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building has stone slate roofs. It consists of a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

, chancel, vestry and porch with a tower at the eastern end. On the well of the south doorway is a

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. The tower holds six bells. One of the bells is from the 15th century and another from the 16th. Inside the church is an octagonal

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from 1658.

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