CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1119091
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1119091
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1987
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:: Stinsford
National Grid Reference:: SY 71133 90993

Details

STINSFORD SY 79 SW

8/121 Church of Saint Michael

GV I

Anglican Parish Church. C13 origin, tower C14, south aisle C15, north aisle C17. Restored, end vestry added in C19. Rubble stone walls, chancel and nave roofs slated, vestry stone slated, all with coped gables. Flat roofs with parapets to aisles. Nave, north and south aisles of 2 bays, chancel with vestry on north, west tower. Tower of 2 stages, with diagonal buttresses at base. Plain parapet, string courses at parapet base and junction of 2 stages. Plain rectangular belfry lights. West door with moulded pointed arch; shallow square recess left of this. Above door, to right, carved stone figure of Saint Michael, probably Saxon. South aisle has battlemented parapet. Moulded string course below, with carved gargoyles. Two 3-light square headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. Pointed arched east window, with Perpendicular tracery. South wall of chancel has blocked doorway. Small lancet at west end. Two 2-light pointed arched windows with Perpendicular tracery. East window, C19, with Perpendicular tracery. North wall has pointed arched window with Perpendicular tracery. In north vestry wall a 2-light square header window with cusped lights. North aisle has plain parapet. Two 3-light square headed windows with Perpendicular tracery. Internally: walls plastered. Chancel has a waggon roof, unplastered, with deep plaster moulded cornice. Chancel arch, C13, with continuous deep roll mouldings, - no shafts or capitals. South of the arch a passage to the nave, and small lancet, lighting former rood stair. South arcade, C13, has moulded round arches, and piers with attached shafts with stiff leaf caps. Trefoiled piscina in aisle. North arcade, originally C13, with similar arches, but piers rebuilt or altered clumsily in C19. On north aisle wall, monument to Audeley and Margaret Grey, 1723, with Corinthian pilasters supporting entablature and crest. On west wall of aisle, monument to George Pitt, 1784, surmounted by carved bust. Late medieval stained glass in aisle windows. Tower arch, C14, has shafts with moulded caps. Nave roof, C19, arch braced. C12 square font with arcaded bowl. The "Mellstock Church" of Thomas Hardy's novels. (RCHM Monument 1 Dorset Vol II)

Listing NGR: SY7113690993

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Legacy System number:: 106309
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.