Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033801
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1033801
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL
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, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Overton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 13382 68135
Details
SU 16 NW WEST OVERTON CHURCH HILL 9/129 Church of St. Michael 27.2.58 II* Anglican parish church. 1877-8 by C.E. Ponting, tower 1883. Flint with squared sarsen banding, and Bath stone quoin and dressings. Nave with north aisle and south porch and west tower. Chancel with north transeptual organ chamber and vestry to south. Porch gabled, with diamond flint and stone patterning and iron terminal cross. Two light windows with quatrefoiled heads and one 3-light with panelled head. Chancel windows square headed and Geometric east window. Tower tall and slender, 4 stages with corner buttresses, a south-east stair and elongated perforated bell openings. Parapet with corner tourelles, and Lombardic table below. Aisle has four groups of triple quatrefoiled lights and a re-used C14 west window. Interior: Nave has a 4-bay north arcade, alternate quatrefoiled and round columns supporting twice chamfered arches. Four bay roof with hammer-beam trusses and arch braces to collars. Open rafters. Handsome tall tower arch of 3 orders and inner triple impost columns, the hoodmould with scrolled tail stops. Door on south side to rood loft, reset. Chancel arch on stilted corbels with verde antico shafts. Chancel Tractarian, the east wall tiled below a string with good gilded tiles and inscription. Double piscina on north. South window sill lowered as sedilia. Pointed boarded barrel roof. Tower has quadripartite vault and centre bell opening. Fittings: Font, under tower. C15 type with quatrefoil panels. Pulpit of oak, panelled. Brass sanctuary rail and C19 oak eagle lectern. Glass: some good C19 glass, 1875, 1885-8 and twelve apostles in aisle, of 1898. Monuments: In chancel: Marble wall tablet. C18. Panel with recessed pilasters and flat cornice with urns and central crest. Apron below. To Mortimer Powell, died 1728. In nave: Tablet, 1971 and 3 early C20 brasses. On west wall a bronze tablet 1960, to Lord Kennet of the Dene, and adjacent, a second bronze to his wife, Kathleen Scott, sculptor, died 1947. An ambitious church in a prominent position by an architect better known for restoration work. (Pevsner, Buildings of Engand - Wiltshire; Church guide)
Listing NGR: SU1338268135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Church of St Michael Church Guide, ()
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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