Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125743
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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- Date:
- 1999-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/01117/12
- Rights:
- © Mrs Margaret I.G. Dixon. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125743
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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 AND ALL ANGELS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hughenden
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86421 95526
Details
HUGHENDEN HUGHENDEN PARK SU 89 NE
4/90 Church of St. Michael and all Angels. 21.6.55
GV II*
Parish church. Originally C14, almost totally rebuilt 1875 by Sir A.W. Blomfield. Knapped flint with stone dressings and tiled roofs. N.W. tower, nave, S.porch,N. aisle, N. chapel now vestry, and chancel. In decorated style with arched traceried windows. Tower is of 3 stages with set back buttresses, battlemented parapet and pyramidal roof. Each side has pair of large 2-light openings to bell-chamber; W. side has moulded doorway and lancet windows. Nave has 4-light W. window, one 3-light and 2 2-light windows to S., and a moulded S. door in steeply gabled porch. C20 extension to N. aisle with row of leaded lights. N. chapel has 2-light window to N. and 3-light E. window with old tracery. Chancel has 2 2-light windows to S. and a 3-light window to E. Interior: C19 N. arcade of 3 bays with octagonal piers; similar chancel arch; 2-light windows to original outer wall of N. aisle; 2 C15 moulded arches between chancel and N. chapel, the central octagonal pier with painted shields on capital; C14 ogee piscina; C19 roofs and painted decoration in chancel. Fittings: C13 cylindrical font with trefoil arcade and foliage frieze; C17 altar table in N. aisle; richly carved marble pulpit of 1891, with figures of archangels in ogee niches; C19 glass including Disraeli memorial in E. window, and N.W. window commemorating Queen Victoria's escape from assassination 1882. Monuments: Queen Victoria's monument to Benjamin Disraeli 1882, with profile portrait carved by R.C. Belt, on N. wall of chancel; monument to Thomas Lane 1621 on S. wall of chancel with small carved figure kneeling at reading desk; medieval cadavre with open shroud in 4-centred arch in N. chapel; 2 medieval effigies of knights in N. chapel, one on E. window sill, the other cross-legged and embellished C16; 3 early C16 slabs with low relief figures of fake medieval knights, supposedly of the Montfort and Wellesbourne families, also in N. chapel, one in a 4-centred arched recess. RCHM I.p.209-210. MON. 2.
Listing NGR: SU8642195526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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