Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1129078
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1129078
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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 ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dundry
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55752 66859
Details
ST 56 NE
2/5
11.10.61
DUNDRY C.P.
CHURCH ROAD (north side)
Church of St. Michael
(formerly listed as Dundry Parish Church)
G.V.
I
Anglican Parish Church. Tower 1484, rest dated 1861 on hopperheads, by
G.B. Gabriel. Ashlar tower, snecked rubble elsewhere, freestone dressings, slate
roofs. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, south
chapel, north vestry, north organ chamber. Perpendicular. Fine 4 stage tower
has plinth, set back buttresses, string for each stage, polygonal north-east stair
turret, first stage has ornately moulded pointed arch to door under dripmould with
regal stops, all below a pointed 5-light window under drip, on the other stages
each face has a similar 2-light window under drip with lozenge stops, mainly blank
but louvred on fourth stage where the buttresses dwindle to attached shafts, above
this stage, on a string with gargoyles, rises a complex Perpendicular pierced and
embattled parapet with central finials and hollow, pierced, square, 4-stage corner
turrets with flying buttresses, parapets and crocketed caps. The remainder of
the church is under low separately gabled roofs with raised coped verges which
also divide nave and chancel, aisle and chapel; south aisle has a trefoil lancet
to the left of the porch, which has a pointed arch, mouldings on capitals, to the
right are two 3-light windows with square heads under drips, one of these lights
the chapel, north aisle has a similar window, a blocked door and one 4-centered,
3-light window, organ chamber and chapel each have 3-light pointed east windows
which echo the similar larger one to chancel. Interior: 3-bay arcade with round
piers, fourth similar bay between chancel and chapel, slight arch brace and
windbrace roof chancel has wagon roof, tower has fluted vault springers and very
deep wave-moulded arch : tablets in tower include one late C18 marble to Symes.
Tower erected by the Merchant Venturers of Bristol as a landmark and is visible
from many parts of Avon. (N. Pevsner : Buildings of England : North Somerset and
Bristol. 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5575266859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33648
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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