Parish Church of St Michael
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130104
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130104
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gidding
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11655 83130
Details
TL 1083
13/50
28.1.58
GT GIDDING
MAIN STREET(North West side)Parish Church of St Michael
GII*
Parish church.Mid C13 south doorway resited.Late C13 chancel.Tower early C14,late C14 belfry,C15 parapet and spire.Chancel arch and nave rebuilt C.1400 and late C15 north and south aisles and south porch.Restoration C.1870,south porch rebuilt and chancel restored.Tower and chancel arch rebuilt 1925.Walls of limestone and field stone rubble,Ketton and Barnack ashlar and dressings.Roofs of slates and lead.South elevation:Tower of four stages with moulded plinth and embattled parapet with grotesque faces and carved gargoyles,and frieze of quatrefoil panels;tower surmounted by octagonal spire.Belfry windows each with two embattled transomed-lights and quatrefoil in two-centred head.Two tiers of spirelights each with two trefoiled-lights and quatrefoil in a gabled head.Clerestory with four windows of two cinquefoiled-lights with pierced spandrels in four-centred heads.Moulded parapet to nave and aisle with carved gargoyles.South aisle with three windows;mid C14 western window of three trefoiled-ogee-lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred head;two eastern windows with three cinquefoil-lights in four-centred heads with moulded reveals.South doorway mid C13 with a two-centred head of two orders,the outer order with shafted jambs and moulded capitals with abaci continued as an impost.South porch rebuilt with original material with two-centred archway of two chamfered orders with a moulded label.Chancel with three windows,two original lancet windows similar to north wall and one with reticulated tracery similar to south aisle window.Interior:Nave arcade C.1400 of four bays with two-centred arches of two chamfered orders,circular piers and semi-circular responds with moulded capitals and bases.Tower arch two-centred of two chamfered orders,the outer order with semi-octagonal responds,moulded capitals and chamfered plinths.Chancel,north and south walls with arcades of two bays,each with two-centred arches of one stop-chamfered order.C13'low-side' window with doorway.Roofs:nave C.1500 of four bays with moulded and cambered tie beams curved and cusped braces,low king posts and moulded ridge and purlins;south aisle pent roof of five bays with braced tie beams,some reused C15 and C17 timber one inscribed'1629 John Lamb Churchwarden'.Piscenae;in chancel with trefoiled head,moulded jambs and label,late C13;in north aisle with two-centred head and chamfered jambs C14;in south aisle with trefoiled-ogee-head C14.Communion rails, early C17 with three rails and two rows of balusters(qv Leighton Bromswold, Cambs).Small octagonal wooden panel with inscribed square'Sator,Arepo,Tinet,Opera, Rotas' with initials 'ER' and dated '1614'.For monuments and floor slabs see RCHM. RCHM:Huntingdonshire p98 VCH:Huntingdonshire p51 Pevsner:Buildings of England p250
Listing NGR: TL1165583130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 98
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 51
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 250
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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