Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108926
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108926
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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 LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Bolsover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pleasley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 50428 64572
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/01/2017
SK 56 SW, 11/138
PARISH OF PLEASLEY,
CHURCH LANE (West Side)
Church of St Michael
(Formerly listed as located in Church Street)
08.07.66
II*
Parish church. C12, C13, C14 and C19. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone
dressings. Welsh slate roofs, stone coped gables and moulded kneelers. West tower,
nave with south porch, and chancel with north vestry. The tower has a moulded plinth
and diagonal buttresses with three set-offs. Two unequal stages. To the south three
small slits light the staircase. Rectangular louvred opening with chamfered surround.
To the west is a blocked four-centred arched doorway and a four-centred arched
3-light window of three cusped lancets and with a concave surround. The lower stage
is blind on the north side. Bell stage separated by moulded string course. Two-light
bell-openings on all sides have cusped lights and a low cusped arch rising from the
apexes of the lower lights. Pair of gargoyles to north and south. Battlements and
four crocketted pinnacles. The north side of the nave has three heavy buttresses
linked by a chamfered string course. Two plain lancets with hoodmoulds. Blocked
lancet-shaped doorway. C20 vestry block not of special interest. The east wall of
the chancel has a 2-light window with Y-tracery. Hoodmould. South elevation of the
chancel of two bays, with two heavy buttresses with between them a tomb recess which
has a chamfered coping and blocked segmental arch with hoodmould. C19 2-light
window above with bar tracery. To the left a 2-light window with cusped tracery and
a priests doorway with moulded arch and hoodmould with C19 foliage stops. The nave
has a taller buttress with two set-offs, then a 2-light window with Y-tracery,
hoodmould and headstops. Broad gabled porch with stone slate roof. Broad entrance
with chamfered depressed pointed arch, impost slabs and hoodmould. Pair of C20
doors. To the left of the porch is a C19 plain lancet, a buttress with two
set-offs, and a window with Y-tracery and hoodmould on head-stops. Further buttress
with two set-offs.
INTERIOR: C12 chancel arch with double billet frieze on the label
and two roll mouldings in the arch. C12 font with figures carved in relief.
Chamfered tower arch, the inner chamfered order on corbels. C19 roofs. The C19
chancel south window is internally shafted and panelled to form a sedilia.
Mid-Victorian stained glass in the east window. C19 reading desk with earlier carved
panel incorporated, possibly of European origin. Jacobean style pulpit from Derby
cathedral. Wooden eagle lectern. Second font (under the tower); plain octagonal bowl
with carved underside, dated 1662.
Listing NGR: SK5042864572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79307
- 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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