Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110379
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1110379
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- 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.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stour Provost
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79402 21572
Details
ST 72 SE STOUR PROVOST CHURCH LANE
2/136 Church of St Michael 16.8.60 GV I
Parish Church. Possibly C13 origin, nave partly C14, south tower partly C15, north aisle, C16, chancel, south porch and general restoration first half of C19, further restoration later C19. Coursed rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Stone slated, gable-ended roof to nave. Slate, gable-ended roof to chancel. Stone copings. Fenestration is largely early C19 with 3 light windows under 2 and 4-centred arches with 'Y -tracery' and returned labels. East chancel window of 3-lights under 4-centred head with perpendicular tracery. North chancel window has C19 2-light plate tracery under 2- centred head. South chancel windows are C19 lancets. C13, probably reset, lancet in south wall of nave. South tower: 2 stages: unbuttressed; crocketted finials; plain south window under 2 centred head with plain rectangular window over; bell stage has 2-centred, perpendicular windows with 2-lights; parapet strings with gargoyles. South porch is rebuilt and has a chamfered, 2-centred arch. South door has moulded 4-centred arch with returned label. Internal features: 2-centred chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders with 3-sided responds with capitals; 4 bay nave arcade with 2-centred moulded arches on piers with attached shafts separated by hollow chamfers; blocked tower arch; chancel roof with intersecting moulded beams and wall-plates, the bays so formed being divided into coffers with fretted panels; C19 tie-beam roof to nave; flat plaster roof to aisle; C15 octagonal stone font with panelled sides on panelled octagonal plinth; C18 communion rails; c.1800, 6- panel south door; C19 glass; probably C20 stone pulpit; C18 floor slabs; other fittings largely C19. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, pp 79-81, no 1. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972.
Listing NGR: ST7940121572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 79-81
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
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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