Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177711
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- 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:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177711
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1958
- 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:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Smethcott
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 44941 99379
Details
SO 49 NW SMETHCOTT C.P. SMETHCOTT
3/97 Church of St. Michael 13.6.58 and All Angels
- II
Parish church. 1849-50, by J. P. Harrison, incorporating material from former C12 church. Uncoursed red sandstone rubble with grey sandstone ashlar dressings; C19 machine tile roof with ridge cresting. Nave and chancel in one (chancel roof slightly lower) with south porch. C19 buttresses with chamfered offsets, parapeted gable end to east with stone coping and cross at apex; timber framed square bellcote to west with copper-sheathed lower parts, cusped lattice openings, and tented pyramidal copper cap with weathervane. South side: central nave window of 2 trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil in tracery and small chancel window to right of 2 trefoiled round-arched lights; chamfered-arched south doorway to left has boarded door with decorative strap hinges and gabled porch with chamfered archway, moulded plinth, and benches and cobbled floor within. Priest's doorway to right has chamfered reveals, probably C12 lumpy tympanum and boarded door with strap hinges. Two fragments of C12 carved masonry in south wall of chancel. North side: pair of nave windows, each with 2 trefoil-headed lights and small re-set C12 round-arched chancel window to left; north doorway to right with chamfered reveals and probablyC12 lumpy tympanum. Two fragments of C12 carved masonry in north wall of chancel. East end: buttresses flanking large window with 3 cinquefoil-headed lights, foiled tracery, double-chamfered reveals and returned hoodmould. West end: window of 2 cinquefoil headed lights with foilad tracery and returned hoodmould. Interior: 5½ bay roof incorporating old timbers,by William Hill (local joiner and carpenter): hammerbeams on stone corbels with arch-braced collars, pairs of purlins (single over 2-bay chancel) with cusped wind braces; chamfered cambered C19 rood beam with lattice screen consisting of diagonal struts above; chamfered rear arches. Fittings: sanctuary panelled in 1952; altar rails c.1850 by William Hill with saltire crosses; probably late C19 octagonal wooden pulpit with raised and fielded panels and stone base ; c.1850 pews incorporating some reused C17 panelling; reused C18 raised and fielded wainscot panelling in nave; possibly C12 oval stone font with plain wooden top; 2 painted benefactors' boards; cast iron safe dated: "T. GLOVER/&/W. ROGERS/WARDENS/1813". Most of the church was rebuilt in 1849-50, except for part of the west wall, the side walls of the porch and a small part of the south wall. Smethcott is now a largely deserted settlement but the church stands in a prominent position at the end of a lane near to the remains of a motte and bailey. V.C.H., Vol. VIII) pp.159-60; B.O.E., p.290; D.H.S. Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, part 6, p.508. -
Listing NGR: SO4494199379
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259638
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 508
Elmington, C R, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1989), 159-60
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 290
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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