Grant, I. (2012). St. Michael's Church, West Felton, Shropshire: Archaeological Watching Brief. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. https://doi.org/10.5284/1027667. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 St. Michael's Church, West Felton, Shropshire: Archaeological Watching Brief
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Abstract:		 The watching brief provided significant evidence for earlier phases of St Michael's Church, predating the present south aisle and tower, as well as identifying a number of undisturbed burials. The present form of the church owes much to major refurbishments during the late 18th and 19th centuries. The service trench adjacent to the south wall of the church revealed elements of an earlier structure, consisting of three buttresses which must be associated with an earlier phase of the church before the south aisle was rebuilt slightly to the north of its original position. The church is depicted in several late 18th-century watercolours, showing the south aisle and chancel before rebuilding. However, none of these depictions shows any buttresses along the south side of the church, suggesting that the fabric revealed during the watching brief is likely to be from a relatively early build, perhaps contemporary with one of the earlier surviving elements of the church, comprising the early 12th-century north nave arcade and the 14th-century chancel arch. Whatever the date of the early buttresses, the evidence suggests that this side of the church has been rebuilt on at least two occasions. It is now clear that at least part of the church was floored with decorative ceramic tiles during the medieval period. A significant number of fragmentary tiles were recovered from the relatively small excavation within the tower, which demonstrated that the tiles had been redeposited amongst rubble, presumably when the tower was rebuilt in 1784. The watching brief also identified the foundations for earlier walls adjacent to the tower which presumably relate to a pre-1784 tower. Unsurprisingly for a church which has been in use since at least the 12th century the watching brief demonstrated several periods of burial, with a number of intercutting graves recorded to the east of the church.
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Author:		 I Grant
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Publisher:		 Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Shropshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2012
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Site: St. Michael’s Church, West Felton, Shropshire
Parish: WEST FELTON
District: Shropshire
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: St Michaels Church
Grid Reference: 334120, 325220 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FLOOR TILE (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Grave Stone (Find)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CHURCH (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) GRAVE (Monument Type England)
1784 (Auto Detected Temporal)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
19th Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal)
12th Century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Late 18th (Auto Detected Temporal)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: clwydpow3-168662
OBIB: 1173
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Created Date:		 28 Nov 2016