Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100658
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- 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:
- 1100658
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1987
- 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:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wyre Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushock
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 88457 71193
Details
RUSHOCK CP CHURCH HILL (east side) SO 87 SE 10/94 Church of St Michael
GV II
Parish church. 1756-1758 by Roger Eykyn, or possibly Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, restored 1872. Sandstone ashlar with tile roofs. Nave with short transepts, chancel and west tower. West tower: three stages with crenellated parapet, 2-centred head to belfry window; 2-light window with Y-tracery to first stage. Ground floor: ogee label to Tudor arch doorhead, fanlight and 2-leaf panelled door. Nave: two bays, two windows have Y-tracery, transept has a stone coped verge to gable and a Y-tracery window; chancel: east window of 1872 has two trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head. Interior: west gallery on plain wooden posts; interior of east window has engaged respond shafts. Nave roof of five bays with arch braced collars supporting king-posts to trusses. Fittings mainly of 1872. Tower staircase has (late Cl7?) splat balusters; some C17 panelling is re-used as fixed benches under west gallery. (BoE, p 257; Colvin, H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - l840, (second edition 1978), p 304; Hereford & Worcester Record Office, BA 8693).
Listing NGR: SO8845771193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 304
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 257
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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