Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041296
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041296
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alwinton
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 92401 05777
Details
ALWINTON LOW ALWINTON NT 90 NW 14/10 Church of St.Michael 21/10/53
GV II*
Parish church. Chancel, north aisle wall, east end of nave and lower part of south transept C12. The rest largely rebuilt 1851 by Pickering. Dressed and snecked stone. Welsh and Scottish slate roofs.
Nave with west bellcote, and aisles, chancel with north vestry, south transept.
West end has 2 tall lancets and smaller lancets to aisles. 3-bay nave has pointed-arched south doorway and lancet windows. Clerestory has 2-light windows with shouldered lintels.
Chancel has priest's door With renewed shouldered lintel. One original C12 south window, one 2-light Decorated window with original tracery, and 2 'low side' lancet windows. C19 Decorated east window.
Transept has cross-shaped carving in gable, dated TSA 1672 for Thomas and Ann Selby.
Interior: Probably original but re-cut C13 north arcade with ocatagonal piers and double-chamfered pointed arches. South arcade and chancel arch are of 1851.
10 steps up to chancel which has crypt below, now vault of Clennel family.
Chancel: shouldered rend arches to low side windows. Deeply-splayed reveals to C12 south window. The Decorated window.has pointed rere arch. C13 or C14 piscina in pointed-arched recess.
Plain round font on thick round stem with moulded base, probably C12 or C13. Two table tombs in north aisle both with finely inscribed marble tops. One is of 1701/2 to Thomas Clennel. The other of 1745 has moulded side panels with excellent angel and memento mori. South aisle: Percival Clennel, 1796 by Jobling of Gateshead.
Northumberland County History : Vol. 14.
Listing NGR: NT9240105777
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236096
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes of Alnham Chatton Chillingham Eglingham Ilderton Ingram and Whittingham The Chapelries of Lowick and Doddington, Vol. 14, (1935)
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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