Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE CENTRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1104977
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE CENTRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1104977
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, VILLAGE CENTRE
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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, VILLAGE CENTRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bulkworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 39474 14186
Details
SS31SE BULKWORTHY CP VILLAGE CENTRE
7/23 Church of St Michael
II*
Anglican parish church. C15, restored 1874. Random rubble local stone, slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, porch and south aisle under same roof slightly higher than nave. Chancel and nave undivided, 2-bay south aisle abutting south porch with chamber above reached by external stone stair, bell-cote west end. Vest gable end 2 full-height stepped buttresses carrying relieving arch and gabled bell-cote hung with 2 bells, 2- light west window, escutcheon below relieving arch containing date and initials I.C.M.S; south wall of nave unlit, lateral stone stair of 11 steps to round-headed doorway to room over porch, plank door. Pointed arch-head double roll noulded opening to porch, C19 rafter roof, depressed Tudor arch head doorway, C19 door; trefoil-headed lancet above porch, two 2-light cinquefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds, 3-light uncusped at east gable ends, pointed arch lancet in north wall of chancel, to west two 2-light windows with hollow-chamfer granite mullions under square hoodmoulds with a stepped buttress between. Interior of porch rendered with flat plasterboard roof, otherwise featureless. Interior of church rendered. Two bay arcade of granite with depressed Tudor arch heads, and octagonal capitals with panels of birds and Christian symbols. Trefoil-headed hagioscope in north-west corner of aisle looking into nave. Partly renewed ribbed and ceiled barrel vault roof with bosses and wallplate in chancel, original ceiled ribbed barrel vault to aisle with wallplate and bosses. Octagonal pulpit with carved panels in memory of William Newcombe of Bankford died 1854. Norman front with cable-moulded base on C19 plinth. C19 decorative wooden reredos inset with slate tablets, altar table and floor tiles all coeval. C19 pews. C19 stained glass in East window. Floor carpet may possibly conceal tomb slabs. C19 pews. There is no electric light in the church. It is said that an inscription in the church, since lost, attributed its building to Sir William Hankford, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the years 1414-22. The initials on the bell-cote are those of J.C.Moore-Stevens who paid for most of the 1874 restoration. (White's Devonshire, 1878; Cherry and Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Devon, forthcoming)
Listing NGR: SS3947414186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989)
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1878)
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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