Church of St Michael
Church of St Michael, Main Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1146435
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Michael, Main Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1146435
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Michael, Main Street
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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, Main Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kniveton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 20998 50395
Details
SK 25 SW
2/75
PARISH OF KNIVETON
MAIN STREET (east side)
Church of St Michael
13.09.67
I
Church. C12, 13, c1663, restoration 1870, vestry added 1907. Coursed rubble gritstone with ashlar dressings. Shallow pitched lead roof with stone coped gables at east and west end and over chancel arch. Nave and chancel, vestry, west tower and south porch.
Plain C12 south doorway with chamfered imposts. Label with two stops, keystone depicting a bear. West tower, late C13 with small lancet window and plain chambered door to nave. String course at first floor. Square-headed two-light bell openings, battlements and short spire are Perpendicular or later. North and south walls of church with irregular fenestration, all windows square headed, some without divisions others with chamfered mullions. The lights in one north window have segmental heads. All probably mid C17. C19 chancel east window with Perpendicular style tracery.
C13 font with circular bowl with pointed trefoils supported on a base of clustered columns. The date 1663 apparently refers to time of its restoration to the church. It might also be the date when the windows were renewed. West gallery early C19 on two cast-iron columns. C19 poppy heads on benches. On nave north wall an aedicule wall monument to Greenwood Holmes 1779. Four C19 stained-glass windows. Nave south, easternmost c.1908 by Jones and Willis. Nave south, westernmost 1888. Nave north windows, three-lights, 1908. Three-light east window 1879.
Listing NGR: SK2099850395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 80128
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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