Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1157759
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1157759
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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 AND ALL ANGELS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Moccas
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 35743 43275
Details
SO 34 SE; 4/41
MOCCAS CP,
MOCCAS PARK
Church of St Michael and All Angels
02.09.66
GV
I
Parish church. Mid-C12, some C14 alterations, restored 1870 by George
Gilbert Scott Junior. Tufa with some sandstone dressings under a graduated
stone tile roof. Nave and chancel with apse.
The nave is of three bays
with a C12 semicircular-headed window to the west and a C14 window of two
trefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the two-centred head and a label. The
south door and porch occupy the central bay. The timber-framed porch was
C14, but was mostly replaced in 1870. The south door has a semicircular
arch of two orders, the inner order plain, the outer with chevron ornament
has engaged respond shafts with carved capitals. The label is C19, tympanum
is plain (the carving has worn away). The west wall has a high-set semi-
circular headed window. Bellcote above has two openings. North wall reflects
south wall, but doorway blocked and slightly more weathered. The chancel has
a two-trefoiled-light window with quatrefoil under a centred head in each wall.
The apse has three semicircular-headed windows with chamfered head and a
sill band.
INTERIOR: truss at west end of nave with wall posts and arch braces
to tie beam. The chancel arch is semicircular and of two orders, both with
chevron ornament, the responds of two plain orders have moulded imposts with
diaper enrichment. The apse arch is also semicircular and of two orders,
the inner plain, the outer with chevron ornament, the responds of two plain
orders have chamfered imposts. Roof has a boarded ceiling with ribs and
bosses of 1870. Fittings: C17 altar rail with turned balusters. In chancel
an altar tomb bearing a C14 recumbent stone effigy of a knight. The font
has a C12 round bowl on a C19 stem. The C14 windows retain C14 glass in
their heads all with elaborate canopies. The organ at the west end is 1870's
painted by Thomas Kemper.
Listing NGR: SO3574143274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149999
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 203-4
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 253
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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