Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1098869
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1098869
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Frome
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 66758 45868
Details
SO 64 NE; 2/123
CASTLE FROME CP,
CASTLE FROME
Church of St Michael
06.03.67
GV
I
Parish church. C12, restored 1878 by B Martin Buckle of Malvern with
addition of bell turret, south porch and north vestry. Nave, south
porch, chancel and north vestry. Coursed and squared sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings, tiled roof. Timber-framed bell turret and porch.
Nave: three bays; square plan west bell tower with spire, semicircular-headed window to left (blocked internally) and C15 window of three cinquefoil-
headed lights to right of gabled porch, inner square-headed doorway with semi-
circular headed relieving arch, blank tympanum, two semicircular-headed windows
in north wall with massive squared masonry. Chancel: two bays; traceried C15
window of two cinquefoil-headed lights to left and window of two trefoil-headed
lights to right, east window, C15 three cinquefoil-headed lights, semicircular-headed window survives in north wall.
INTERIOR: late C15 panelled roof, chancel,
c1500 trussed rafter roof ceiled to west and boarded and panelled to east with
moulded ribs and decorative bosses. Fittings: font, c1140, red sandstone,
chalice shaped bowl with base formed by three crouching figures, decorated
with three stranded plaiting along rim and irregular interlace to stem, carved
representations of the Baptism of Christ, the four symbols of the evangelists,
and the hand of God and two doves on the bowl. The font is one of the
outstanding works of the Herefordshire school of sculpture with a mixture of local and
French and Italian elements. Pulpit, early C18, three-sided with moulded
cornice and bolection moulded panels.
Monuments: in chancel: Unett memorial,
tomb chest c1630-40, sandstone with effigies of alabaster, draped sides with
weepers probably representing children, two effigies, male and female in civil
costume; Francis Unett memorial, wall tablet, 1656, stone and slate, broken
pediment with coat of arms supported by twisted columns.
(RCHM Vol II, p 48/9,
item 1; Romanesque Exhibition Catalogue 1983, item 139; F Bond, Fonts and Font
Covers, 1908, p 52; L Stone, Sculpture in Britain in the Middle Ages, Pelican
History of Art, 1955, p 476; A Gardner, English Medieval Sculpture, 1951, p 58).
Listing NGR: SO6675545868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 48-49
Gardiner, A, English Medieval Sculpture, (1951), 58
Bond, F, Fonts and Font Covers, (1908), 52
Stone, L, Pelican History of Art in Sculpture in Britain in the Middle Ages, (1955), 476
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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