ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1155639
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1155639
Date first listed:: 28-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jun-1982
List Entry Name:: ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ABBEY CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, FARNBOROUGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Rushmoor (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 87278 56078

Details

FARNBOROUGH ROAD 1. 5238 Farnborough Abbey Church of St Michael (Formerly listed as Roman Catholic Church of St Michael) SU 8756 4/24 28.1.59 I 2. 1886-87. By G H A Destailleur. Built for the Empress Eugenie as a memorial to her husband Napoleon III, the crypt serving as a mausoleum, to house the remains of Napoleon III, the Prince Imperial, and the Empress Eugenie in granite sarcophagi. Late French Gothic in style, comprising an aisless nave, short transepts and apsidal east end, the crossing being surmounted by an octagonal tower, with copper dome capped by a lead covered domed turret. Fine ashlar stone walling, pinnacled buttresses, elaborate traceried parapet, projecting gargoyles. Central doorway is flanked by butresses rising to pinnacles with a circular window above with Flamboyant tracery, ending with a traceried panel. The east end has flying buttresses.

Listing NGR: SU8762456569

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Legacy System number:: 137848
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.