Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SWAN HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098547
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SWAN HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098547
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SWAN HILL 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, SWAN HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 24865 92449
Details
SY 29 SW COLYTON SWAN HILL ROAD 13/152 COLYFORD
Church of St Michael
II
Church. Built 1888/9. Small church in Arts and Crafts style. Stone rubble with freestone dressings and tiled roof. Comprising: nave and chancel in one, south transept, south-west porch and north vestry. Bellcote over west gable with corbelled buttresses with pinnacles, short tented gablets and small spirelet. Stringcourse below window cill level on battered plinth. Lancets and grouped lancets. Battered buttresses with set offs. Buttress at centre of west end with gablet between lancets, above which is small oval window in the gable. Lean-to vestibule across west end with gabled porch to south. Interior: red and yellow brick with stone dressings. Timber vaulted roof with arched braces on stone corbels. Three bay arcade to vestibule at west end and two bay arcade to south transept. Squint with cusped arches. Complete furnishings including timber chancel screen, carved wooden reredos with relief based on Bartolommeos "The Entombment", pulpit, benches and font. St Michael's is a chapel of ease built by Mrs Scarbrough in memory of her father Admiral Impey.
Listing NGR: SY2486592449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87907
- 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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