Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1087523
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1087523
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arthuret
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 37939 67666
Details
NY 36 NE ARTHURET ARTHURET
22/1 Church of St Michael
1.4.57
G.V. II*
Church. Dated 1609 over west entrance, built by national subscription, replacing medieval church; tower completed c1700, restored 1868. Red and yellow dressed sandstone, graduated green slate roofs. 3-storey tower/porch, 7-bay nave with north and south aisles, one-bay chancel. Tower: plank door in pointed arch, 2-light mullioned openings with louvred vents; small, chamfered-surround stair windows to left; stepped angle buttresses, string courses, battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles; weather vane with cut lettering ST MICHAEL'S. Aisles have triple cross-mullioned windows; smaller mullioned clerestory windows above. Aisles and nave with battlemented parapets and finials, stepped buttresses between aisle windows. Chancel has no side windows; replacement east window of 1868 (original now as folly at Whoof House, Aglionby) has oval at the apex of the arch and inter- secting tracery, stained glass by Scott of Carlisle. Interior; 7-bay arcade of pointed arches; C17 bowl and stem font; C15 heart brass; heraldic hatchments on 3 wooden panels and marble wall plaques, all to members of the Graham family 1657- C20. Furnishing and fittings are early C20. See, Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, vol lxvi, pp. 179-189.
Listing NGR: NY3793967666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 66, (), 179-189
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Battlefields Register,
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