Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BUSSAGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091213
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BUSSAGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091213
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BUSSAGE 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 AND ALL ANGELS, BUSSAGE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 88249 03503
Details
SO 8803-8903 CHALFORD BUSSAGE HILL (west side)
10/10 Church of St Michael and All Angels 28.6.60
II
Parish church. 1844 by J.P. Harrison of Oxford; 1854 south aisle by G.F. Bodley. Coursed picked rubble limestone, rock-faced to south aisle; stone slate roof. Nave with south aisle and porch; west tower and chancel with north vestry. Four-bay south aisle with lean-to roof and gabled buttresses with tracery carving on front face; 2-light square-headed aisle windows with trefoil tracery. Gabled porch flush with aisle wall has moulded pointed arched doorway with carved quatrefoil panel above. This powerful aisle contrasts with the weaker main body of the church. Three 2- light pointed north nave windows with decorated tracery and pointed arched north doorway. Rather plain tower with tall 2-light west window and large diagonal offset buttresses. Projecting stair turret on south side with coped top. Two-light Decorated belfry openings; plain string courses and simple tower parapet with conical roof. Slightly more elaborate tracery to chancel windows, east window being 3-light. Interior: tall nave with fine 3-bay south arcade, octagonal piers having delicate floral carving above moulded capitals. Finely carved leaf terminals to hood mould and to corbel shafts. Tall pointed tower and chancel arch, latter with 5-bay timber rood screen. Six-bay nave roof with arched braced collar trusses on carved wooden angle corbels; cusped windbracing. Stepped chancel floor with encaustic tiles; wagon chancel roof. Three-bay reredos by Bodley with attached shafts. Timber sedile with hood set in south chancel window. Cl9 choir stalls and altar rail. Square- headed north aumbry with decorative iron grille. Octagonal stone pulpit front and font. Stained glass: east window of 1846 by O'Connor; one north nave window by Walter Tower. Church built for Thomas Keble following principles of the Oxford Movement, Harrison being described as a 'person of no great note in his profession, but an Oxford man, a gentleman, and a scholar'. South aisle, added for inmates of the nearby Bussage House of Mercy, is Bodley's first executed architectural work and is more successful than Harrison's church. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 4-40; and D. Verey, Cotswold Churches, 1976 and Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979). -
Listing NGR: SO8824903503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132804
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, Cotswold Churches, (1976)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976)
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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