CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1101613
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48623 21336
Details
1.
5253 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Church of St Michael
(formerly listed under
Windhill)
TL 4821 SE:3/40 18.10.49
I
2.
Principally early C15, flint with stone dressings. Upper stage of tower 1812, brick
and stone dressings; lead spire. Embattled nave and side aisles with buttressed
walls, rich perpendicular tracery and projecting porches north and south. C19 chancel
clerestorey and west window. Tower upper storey with 2-light traceried windows and
clock on each face, quatrefoiled and crenellated parapet. Interior. High nave arcade
of 6 bays with slim, moulded piers. Original nave and aisle timber roofs, tie beams
of nave with traceried spandrels on good figures corbels. Choir has 3 lower arcades
on north, C19 roof and C15 choir stalls and screed, this with 1885 vaulted canopy.
Trefoiled sedilia. 1658 hexagonal pulpit in Jacobean style with feigned perspective
panels. C12 purbeck marble font top. Original oak doors in north and south
entrances. Upper part of tower converted to study room and ground floor closed by C19
traceried glazed screen. West window by Kempe, 1877. Several early C19 GreekRevival
tombs in churchyard. Good example of early C15 church in Hertfordshire, well restored
in C19. Dominant landmark in town. (RCHM (1911), 62, 63; Pevsner 2nd Ed Rev (1977)
101-102).
Listing NGR: TL4862321336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 101-2
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing