Church of St Michael and All Angels
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Road
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Overview
ST33NW
8/5
BAWDRIP CP
CHURCH ROAD (west side)
Church of St Michael and All Angels
29.3.63
GV II*
Anglican parish church. Predominantly late C13 early C14, extensively restored 1866. Squared, and coursed and squared rubble, rough-dressed quoins, tile roofs, crested ridges, coped verges, cruciform finials. Decorated and neo-Decorated style. Nave, chancel, crossing tower, north and south transepts, south porch, small C19 lean-to vestry by the porch. The tower plain and unbuttressed, embattled, string at bell-chamber stage and below the parapet, gargoyles; single light bell chamber windows with louvres, below two blocked two-light windows with tracery and two single light openings with foiled heads, each with leaded lights; clock. Two bay nave, two bay chancel, single bay transepts, windows with curvilinear tracery, much renewed, labels with carved heads as stops. Square head three-light north and south windows to chancel as well as the three-light pointed head east window are Perpendicular. Gabled porch, benched interior on a flagstone floor.
Interior scraped on flagstone floors. C19 roofs. The crossing with arches of two orders supported by corbels carved as heads, these in turn supported on massive lias piers pierced by squints to chancel and through way between nave and north transept; above a cantilevered stone staircase which gives access to ringing chamber reached by an external doorway. Chancel with aumbry, sedila, and piscina; piscinae to transepts, that to south particularly fine. C17 coffin stool. C18 chair. C19 pulpit, pews, font, organ and stone reredos. North transept with recumbent effigy of Sir Simon de Bradney, in armour, obit. 1375, foiled canopy with pierced cusping and four carved heads. C17 memorial behind the altar with Latin text. Five late C18 early C19 wall monuments. C19 and early C20 stained glass. Four early bells. (Faculty deposited SRO pertaining to 1866 restoration; Church Guide).
Listing NGR: ST3414639586
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060158
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060158
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Road
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, Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bawdrip
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 34146 39586
Summary
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 November 2024 to reformat the text to current standards
ST33NW
8/5
BAWDRIP CP
CHURCH ROAD (west side)
Church of St Michael and All Angels
29.3.63
GV II*
Anglican parish church. Predominantly late C13 early C14, extensively restored 1866. Squared, and coursed and squared rubble, rough-dressed quoins, tile roofs, crested ridges, coped verges, cruciform finials. Decorated and neo-Decorated style. Nave, chancel, crossing tower, north and south transepts, south porch, small C19 lean-to vestry by the porch. The tower plain and unbuttressed, embattled, string at bell-chamber stage and below the parapet, gargoyles; single light bell chamber windows with louvres, below two blocked two-light windows with tracery and two single light openings with foiled heads, each with leaded lights; clock. Two bay nave, two bay chancel, single bay transepts, windows with curvilinear tracery, much renewed, labels with carved heads as stops. Square head three-light north and south windows to chancel as well as the three-light pointed head east window are Perpendicular. Gabled porch, benched interior on a flagstone floor.
Interior scraped on flagstone floors. C19 roofs. The crossing with arches of two orders supported by corbels carved as heads, these in turn supported on massive lias piers pierced by squints to chancel and through way between nave and north transept; above a cantilevered stone staircase which gives access to ringing chamber reached by an external doorway. Chancel with aumbry, sedila, and piscina; piscinae to transepts, that to south particularly fine. C17 coffin stool. C18 chair. C19 pulpit, pews, font, organ and stone reredos. North transept with recumbent effigy of Sir Simon de Bradney, in armour, obit. 1375, foiled canopy with pierced cusping and four carved heads. C17 memorial behind the altar with Latin text. Five late C18 early C19 wall monuments. C19 and early C20 stained glass. Four early bells. (Faculty deposited SRO pertaining to 1866 restoration; Church Guide).
Listing NGR: ST3414639586
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 November 2024 to reformat the text to current standards
ST33NW
8/5
BAWDRIP CP
CHURCH ROAD (west side)
Church of St Michael and All Angels
29.3.63
GV II*
Anglican parish church. Predominantly late C13 early C14, extensively restored 1866. Squared, and coursed and squared rubble, rough-dressed quoins, tile roofs, crested ridges, coped verges, cruciform finials. Decorated and neo-Decorated style. Nave, chancel, crossing tower, north and south transepts, south porch, small C19 lean-to vestry by the porch. The tower plain and unbuttressed, embattled, string at bell-chamber stage and below the parapet, gargoyles; single light bell chamber windows with louvres, below two blocked two-light windows with tracery and two single light openings with foiled heads, each with leaded lights; clock. Two bay nave, two bay chancel, single bay transepts, windows with curvilinear tracery, much renewed, labels with carved heads as stops. Square head three-light north and south windows to chancel as well as the three-light pointed head east window are Perpendicular. Gabled porch, benched interior on a flagstone floor.
Interior scraped on flagstone floors. C19 roofs. The crossing with arches of two orders supported by corbels carved as heads, these in turn supported on massive lias piers pierced by squints to chancel and through way between nave and north transept; above a cantilevered stone staircase which gives access to ringing chamber reached by an external doorway. Chancel with aumbry, sedila, and piscina; piscinae to transepts, that to south particularly fine. C17 coffin stool. C18 chair. C19 pulpit, pews, font, organ and stone reredos. North transept with recumbent effigy of Sir Simon de Bradney, in armour, obit. 1375, foiled canopy with pierced cusping and four carved heads. C17 memorial behind the altar with Latin text. Five late C18 early C19 wall monuments. C19 and early C20 stained glass. Four early bells. (Faculty deposited SRO pertaining to 1866 restoration; Church Guide).
Listing NGR: ST3414639586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269444
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Church of St Michael and All Angels Bawdrip Church Guide, ()
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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