Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1061695
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- 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:
- 1061695
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- 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.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP7615395305
Details
SP 79 NE CRANOE CHURCH HILL (West Side)
4/2 Church of St. Michael
7.12.66
GV II*
Parish Church. Almost entirely rebuilt by J.G. Bland of Market Harborough
in 1849, retaining the C13 and C14 tower. Coursed ironstone rubble with ashlar
dressings. Plain tiled roofs. West tower, nave and chancel. Tower is built
into sloping ground, of three stages, the lowest apparently C13 of ironstone
and limestone squared rubble. Small western lancet. Paired foiled lights
to bell chamber. Embattled parapet. Buttressed nave, with plinth and sill
course. Windows of 2 and 3 foiled lights in Decorated style. Large south
porch, buttressed and with coped gable, the outer arch shafted and hollow chamfered,
and Perpendicular style lights in east and west walls. Embattled parapets
to nave, the embattling continuing over the steep east gable. Ridge cresting.
Decorated windows in buttressed chancel 2 and 3-lights to south, 3 to east.
Plain parapet, decorative tiles and ridge cresting.
Inside a wide nave with chamfered west tower arch on Victorian corbels. Interior
of south door has Perpendicular style stilted arch. King post roof with long
raking braces from angel corbels. Shafted and hollow chamfered chancel arch
flanked by commandment boards. Small chancel, only the altar raised above
the general floor level. Encaustic tiles. C13 font, a rough round basin.
Stained glass : all windows have small angel figures in upper lights. The
east window is a memorial to a member of the Brudenall family of 1846 by Powell;
a lacy pattern with geometric design incorporating heraldic emblems and a central
panel depicting the deposition from the cross. South east window of nave is
a memorial to a Count of Cardigan who died in 1868 and although the colour
is garish, the detail, the Good Samaritan story, is delicate and mediaeval
in feel. Nave north east window of 1875, the rich colours and mannered style
owing much to the Preraphaelite movement.
Listing NGR: SP7615395305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 190777
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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