Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120146
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1120146
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gussage St. Michael
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 98585 11332
Details
GUSSAGE ST MICHAEL ST 91 SE
5/46 Church of St Michael 18.3.55 GV I
Parish Church, C12 west tower, C13 nave and aisles; south aisle rebuilt C14; C15 upper stage of tower, north porch and some refenestration; 1857 chancel; late C19 north vestry; 1857 work by G E Street. Flint with squared rubble blocks and ashlar dressings, tower part rendered. Slated and tiled roofs with clerestory to nave. Plan: nave; chancel; north aisle; south aisle; west tower; north vestry; north porch. West tower: 3-stage with embattled parapet; original flat buttress to west; lower stage has square loops; second stage has C14 trefoiled loops; upper floor has C15 pointed belfry windows of 2 lights with quatrefoils in head. North porch has a moulded 4-centred arch. North aisle has a C15 square-headed 3-light window. Vestry and chancel have square-headed north and south windows of one and 2 lights. East chancel window with plate tracery of 3 trefoiled lights. Pointed, chamfered C19 south chancel door. South aisle has a C13 lancet east and 2 square-headed, Perpendicular tracery windows of 2-lights to the south wall. To the left is a blocked, pointed, chamfered door. Cl7 plank door to north doorway with wrought-iron strap hinges.
Internal features: C19 pointed chancel arch reusing earlier material; C12 round headed tower arch with alternating greensand and heathstone voussoirs; 2 bay pointed arcades springing from cylindrical piers with moulded caps and bases, the south cap having some dog-tooth ornamentation; C15, 3-bay nave roof with tie-beams and king-posts; C16 moulded beam roof to north aisle; C13 font with circular bowl on cylindrical stem; C15 tre- foiled niche above porch arch; other features largely C19. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 22-23, no. 1, Newman,J and Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p 219).
Listing NGR: ST9858511332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 22-23
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 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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