Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE KNAP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021792
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE KNAP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021792
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE KNAP
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE KNAP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilperton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87098 59234
Details
St 85 NE HILPERTON THE KNAP (east side)
7/23 Church of St Michael and All Angels
13-11-62
GV II
Anglican parish church. C15, rebuilt 1852 by T.H. Wyatt in C14 style. Rubble stone, Welsh slate roof with coped verges. Plan: West tower, nave with south porch, chancel with north vestry and organ chamber. Gabled C19 porch with segmental pointed doorway with hoodmould, coped verge with cross finial. Nave has one 2- light segmental pointed window to left and gabled dormer with 2- light pointed window over, three 2-light pointed windows to right of porch, corbelled eaves. Chancel has two 2-light pointed windows with hoodmoulds to south side, 3-light window with reticulated tracery to east, angle buttresses, vestry has 2-light pointed east window, 1892 consecration cross, north side has Tudor- arched doorway and 2-light window, lean-to attached to east side has 5-light ovolo-mullioned casement, cusped lancet over, stack with panelled sides. North side of nave has three 2-light pointed windows and one 2-light segmental-headed window, three reset memorial tablets, probably from chest tombs, one incorporating a bronze panel - to Betty Daniel died 1770. Three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, west doorway with rounded corners and cusp, planked door with strap hinges, 3-light restored pointed Perpendicular window over string course, lancet on south side. Second stage has lancet to north, circular clock face to south. Upper part of bellstage has ogee-headed deep chamfered lancets, circular clockface on west side. Octagonal broach spire. Polygonal C19 stair turret with chamfered arrowloops on north side. Interior: Porch has scissor-rafter roof, C19 moulded pointed doorway. Nave has 5-bay roof; deep arch-braced collar trusses on foliated corbels, double chamfered segmental-pointed tower arch with 1890s wooden screen. C19 double chamfered chancel arch with wrought iron screen. Chancel has panelled roof with painted ribs and panels, two moulded pointed arches through to vestry and organ chamber with wooden screen. C19 wooden reredos, piscina on south east windowsill. C19 polygonal wooden pulpit with octagonal tester, given by John Kemp 1894. C19 seating. Royal arms of George III, 1771 over south doorway. C12 cylindrical stone font with fine carved arcading, reset on C19 base. 1890s Flemish or German stained glass in north west nave and south east chancel windows. South east window of nave to Rush family, by Ward and Hughes 1894. 1920s south west nave glass to John Kemp. East window to Gouldsmith family. Monuments include brass on nave bench end to John Fido, rector died 1723, black and white marble tablet with draped urn to Elizabeth Chapman died 1780. Medieval church door against west end of nave; a fine example with cross braces. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)
Listing NGR: ST8709859234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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