Church of Saint Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, A 6108
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179437
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, A 6108
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179437
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, A 6108
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 AND ALL ANGELS, A 6108
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downholme
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 11068 98334
Details
DOWNHOLME A 6108 SE 19 NW (west side) 4/13 Church of Saint Michael and All Angels 4.2.69 II* GV
Church. C12, C13, C14, C15 with C19 restorations. Rubble with ashlar dressings, artificial slate roof. Nave with north aisle and south porch, chancel with north aisle. Porch: probably 1811. Round-arched opening with ashlar voussoirs, imposts and keystone. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping with gable cross. Inside, medieval grave cover with a stepped cross with foliate head and shears. Nave: c.1180. 3 bays. South doorway: Romanesque, with one chevroned order. Round-arched window of 1811 with imposts and keystone with 2 segmental-arched lights and roundel in tympanum. Tall C15 rectangular window, probably for rood gallery. Corbel table with modillions. Gable parapets. Corniced bellcote at west end. Gable cross at east end. West end nave: diagonal buttress to right. Lancet window with C14 Decorated tracery, and C19 label with heads. West end north aisle: C19 2-light Early English-style window. North aisle: C13. C15 square window in chamfered surround; stepped buttress; 2-light window with trefoiled heads and trefoil above in plate tracery, label with heads; stepped buttress; blocked north doorway with pointed arch, imposts and chamfered label. Chancel: early C14. 2 bays. Shouldered lintel to priest's doorway. 2 C19 2-light windows in Decorated-style with labels with heads. Corbel table with modillions. Gable parapet to east, with C19 Gothic chimney at apex. Chancel east end: stepped buttresses. C14 3-light window with reticulated tracery. Interior: early C13 nave arcade of 2 plain orders on circular piers on tall bases with hollow-moulded capitals. C13 chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders with nailhead ornament on abaci of mutilated capitals. Arch to north chapel slightly chamfered with broach stops. Piscina with pointed arch. Two corbels for images flanking east window. C12 octagonal font with cable moulding around rim and with C19 Perpendicular-style armorial shields around bowl, on C19 stem. 2 hatchments of Hutton family. George III coat of arms. Vcll i, pp. 230-1.
Listing NGR: SE1106898334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321898
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 230-1
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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