CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118631
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118631
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Anderson
National Grid Reference:: SY 88023 97536

Details

ANDERSON SY 89 NE ANDERSON MANOR

7/1 Church of Saint Michael 14-7-55 GV II

Former parish church, now redundant. Medieval origin, transept added 1755, whole Church largely rebuilt 1882. Architect Walter J Fletcher, of Wimborne, Nave, Chancel, south transept, south porch. Walls, nave of flint and stone banding, transept of flint and brick bonding, chancel plastered. Chamfered plinth. Tiled roofs with stone eaves courses, coped gables and ornamental ridge tiles. Double stone bell cote at west end, gabled, with trefoiled arches, supported on a shallow pilaster buttress on west wall. C19 porch in angle of nave and transept, of glazed timbering on flint and stone base, with stone slate roof. West of this a 2-light square-headed window with trefoiled lights. 2-light traceried window in transept. Single-light square-headed windows, with trefoiled lights, in north and south chancel walls. 2-light pointed arched traceried window in east wall. North wall of nave has two 2-light square-headed windows with trefoiled lights.

Internally, chancel has a pine roof with cusped braced principals. Nave and transept roofs of pine, arch-braced. C19 pine pews and pulpit. Small C19 octagonal font. Bowl of. earlier font on floor of transept, with part of base. On south wall of nave a circular marble monument to Margaret Golpine, died 1803, signed J Brine. 1807.

Churchyard wall, probably C19, of brick, with shallow piers and plain coping. (RCHM Monument 1. Dorset. Vol.III)

Listing NGR: SY8802397536

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Legacy System number:: 103414
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.