
Church of St Michael, Little Witley
Parish church. C13 foundations, rebuilt 1867 probably by S
W Perkins. Red sandstone ashlar, tiled roof. Early English style. Nave with south porch,
north vestry, apsidal chancel. 3-bay nave, octagonal plan bell- cote to west end, 3
columns with stiff-leaf capitals, decorative closed sides, conical capping and finial,
pointed arched, Y-traceried windows with stiff-leaf capitals to responds, hoodmoulds and
stiff-leaf stops flank central part. Timber-framed gabled porch; doorway similar to window
surround, moulded archway and stiff-leaf ornament; buttressing to west end and to chancel
arch, semi-circular headed doorway on north face only remains of earlier church, 2-bay
chancel has simple lancets. Interior: trussed rafter roof to nave supported on stiff-leaf
corbels, pointed chancel arch similar to doorway and window surrounds, supported on 2
orders with sitff-leaf capitals.