Ingram : St Michael's Church Interior By P F Ryder

The walls of the interior of the church are of bare stone; those of the aisles and chancel are of typical 19th-century 'snecked stone'.

The Tower opens to the nave by a broad semicircular arch spanning its full width, its jambs including outwards. The arch is of a single square order, without any through stones; there is a rather odd outer series of voussoirs towards the nave, almost as if a projecting outer order had been trimmed back. The responds are of simple square plan, with impost blocks that are chamfered only on their lower angles. Above the tower arch the wall of roughly-coursed and roughly-squared blocks, some quite large, shows remains of old roof lines, one springing from quite low down, and a clearer one c1 m below the present roof.

The internal walls of the tower are of regularly coursed blocks, many taller than they are wider; there are clear butt joints between the sidewalls and the outer face of the west wall of the nave. The two windows have slightly depressed rear arches, with diagonally tooled voussoirs, and 19th Century sloping sills.

Each side wall of the Nave has an arcade of three bays, with an elongate 'pier' (really a section of unbroken wall) to the east and then a larger arch to a former transept.. The arcades are each of three quite steeply two-centred arches, each of two chamfered orders, on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases; the piers of the southern arcade have an additional ornament in the form of a fleur-de-lys springing upwards from the capital at the intersection of the outer orders of the arches.

The western responds of the arcades are rather strange, taking the form of square blocks of masonry with heavy imposts, roughly-hollowed on their lower angles, with, overlain by their bases, moulded semi-octagonal bases. The face of that of the south arcade has remains of an inscription, now illegible, possibly referring to a 17th-century restoration.

The eastern responds are formed by rectangular blocks of wall, which have an impost-like band, hollow chamfered below, extending all round them (except on the south side of the southern one where this has been largely hacked away, except at its east end from which an arch to the aisle wall springs). This band is not horizontal but on each pier dips markedly to the east. At the west end of this block of walling there is also a hollow chamfered off-set c 0.80 off ground, but it is not clear whether this is an ancient feature.

The transept arches are also of two chamfered orders, but wider and higher than those of the main sections of the arcade; that on the south is wider and of segmental-pointed form rather than two centred. Each arch has a semi-octagonal respond to the east, with a moulded base and capital, and a peculiar western respond which consists of a short semi-octagonal shaft, with a moulded capital, rising from the impost band that runs all round the long rectangular 'piers'. On the face of the lower part of the western respond of the southern arch is an incised sundial, with a circle divided into 24 parts.

The roof of the nave is of five bays, with arch-braced collar beam trusses on moulded ashlar corbels, all of 19th-century date.

Within the aisles, the south doorway has a plain steeply two-centred rear arch and all the lancet windows, whether single or grouped, round-headed rear arches with chamfers to their heads only. The eastern bay of each aisle is divided from the remainder by a two-centred arch of one plain square order. There is said to be a medieval piscina, now concealed by the organ, in the east end of the north aisle.

The arch into the Chancel is of two-centred form and of two chamfered orders, carried on semi-octagonal responds with mutilated moulded capitals and plain chamfered bases. The east wall of the nave has an oversailing course at the level of the respond capitals; the face of the outer order of the arch is flush with the wall above, and the face of the inner order with that below, possibly indicating that the lower sections have been cut back. In the northeast angle of the nave above the pulpit us an attractive little semi-octagonal bracket with carved foliage, set on a tiny angle shaft with a moulded capital.

The chancel is entirely of 19th-century date; it has a moulded string of semicircular section below the windows, stepped up slightly beneath the eastern triplet. The lancets in the sidewalls have round rear arches of the usual type, the eastern triplet a more elaborate surround with shafted jambs that have nail-head in their capitals, and richly moulded arches. It has a 32 two-bay roof with a central collar-beam truss with arch braces coming down onto ashlar corbels, and an upper king post.