CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1179485
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET

User submitted image — Uploaded by ChurchCare This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-06-21
Reference:: IOE01/07035/31
Rights:: © Mr Roy Kneeshaw. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1179485
Date first listed:: 15-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Spennithorne
National Grid Reference:: SE 13708 88973

Details

SE 18 NW SPENNITHORNE MAIN STREET (east side) 3/111 Church of St Michael 15.2.67 (Formerly listed under General)

GV I

Church. C12, C13, C14, C15 and C17. Sandstone rubble, Westmorland slate roofs. West tower, nave with aisles and south porch, chancel with north aisle containing chapel and vestry. Tower: C14 with off-set angle buttresses and projecting stair turret to south with 6-light vents and bench mark to west face of projection. Ground floor: 2-light west window. First floor: clock on west face, single-light window with trefoil head under flat hood to north and south. Second floor: belfry openings of 2-lights, with trefoil heads and blind quatrefoil in plate tracery above, on all 4 sides. Embattled parapet corbelled out on heads, with gargoyles of goblin holding spout, weather-vane on north-west corner. Nave: late C14 gabled south porch with off-set diagonal buttresses with short pinnacles, doorway with continuous hollow chamfer and label, weathered niche above and gable cross, corbelled stone roof. Inside: stone benches and barrel vault, C13 doorway with shafts and hollow mouldings, continuous 'green man' capitals. C13 south aisle with 2 south windows of 2 lights with trefoil heads, linked by sill band, corbel table with heads and lion masks, gargoyles. 2-light west window, 3-light east window with trefoil heads under flat lintel. c1620 north aisle of 3 bays with 2 windows under straight-sided pointed heads and 1 window with 3 trefoiled lights under a flat lintel. North doorway with a pointed arch in a square lintel, above it a panel with medieval lettering. Chancel: 3 bays divided by off-set buttresses. C14 windows, 1 single-light and two 2-light with quatrefoils above, all under labels with medieval heads on stops, and continuous sill band. East end: 4-light Perpendicular windo..< and off-set buttresses. North chancel aisle: east window of vestry of 2 lights with plate tracery; north chapel window of 3 lights with 5 cusps under straight-sided pointed heads. Interior: mid C12 north arcade to nave with round piers, scallop capitals and round arches of 2 orders. C13 south arcade to nave, Early English circular piers with plain bell capitals and pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders. C14 tower arch of 2 chamfered orders, springing from male figures. Early English chancel arch with heads on label stops on both faces, and Early English corbels. Double-chamfered pointed arch from chancel to north chapel, with C14/C15 screen set into the opening. C14 pointed-arched doorway to vestry with continuous chamfered moulding. Chancel north wall: aumbry with trefoil under ogee arch. Chancel south wall: piscina with trefoil under ogee arch, stone bench sedile. Nave south wall: roll moulding on arris of south doorway, sill band of semi circular section with whorl and animal stops. Stone with cross-head set in east wall of vestry. Medieval tomb-chest in north chapel to a Fitz Randall of Spennithorne Old Hall, also 2 medieval bench ends. South aisle east wall: medieval corbel for image with male and female heads. South aisle west wall: medieval wall painting depicting Father Time. South aisle south wall: royal coat of arms dated 1780, wall memorial to Hon. Anne Scroope d 1694 and Francisca Scroope d 1731. Chancel south wall: wooden wall memorial to Fr. Wyvill d 1649.

Listing NGR: SE1370788976

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 321720
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.