Church of Saint Michael
CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, WESTERNS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149833
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, WESTERNS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149833
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, WESTERNS LANE
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 SAINT MICHAEL, WESTERNS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Markington with Wallerthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28632 65081
Details
SE 26 NE MARKINGTON WITH WESTERNS LANE WALLERTHWAITE (west side)
5/69 Church of Saint Michael
GV II
Church of Saint Michael. 1844 by A H Cates for Mr Wilberforce, in early Gothic style, with restoration 1968. Gritstone, Westmorland slate roof. 5- bay nave with bell-cote at west end and south porch, bay 2. Lower-roofed 2- bay chancel with vestry on north side. Porch has pointed arch with hood- mould surmounted by statue of Saint Michael in a niche. Board door with strap hinges. Trefoil-headed lancet windows to nave and chancel. Stepped diagonal buttresses, ashlar copings with crosses to gable finials. Interior: fine roof structure : raised crucks on corbels in nave, and a type of waggon roof with scissor braces to chancel. The 3-light east window was designed by William Wailes and the west window is a memorial to John Stanley Tute, the first vicar, who died in 1897. The bellcote and west end of the nave roof were damaged by gales in 1962 and rebuilt by 1968. The vestry was destroyed by fire in 1973 when the Sanctuary roof was also damaged. The church was rededicated in 1974.
Listing NGR: SE2863265081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330991
- 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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