Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1184327
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/03357/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1184327
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Bedwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 29124 66199
Details
LITTLE BEDWYN CHURCH STREET
SU 26 NE
(east end)
2/142 Church of St. Michael
(formerly listed as the Parish
Church of St Michael)
22.8.66
I
Anglican parish church. C12, C13, C15 and C19. Flint with
interspersed limestone, slate roof, copper sheet to aisles. Nave,
aisles, south porch, west steeple, and chancel with C19 north
vestry. C15 South Porch with Tudor arched door and C19 cusped
roundel over. Windows all C15; aisles and chancel have 2-light
square headed windows with trefoiled ogees and label. Chancel east
window of 3-lights. Nave clerestorey also 2-lights with trefoiled
heads. Tower of 4-stages, of equal width to nave, offsetting above
nave eaves, and having moulded top string. Plain well-proportioned
octagonal ashlar broach spire. Bell openings to tower as
clerestorey, but narrow single light to ringing floor. Angle
buttresses. Gnomon on chancel south-west buttress. Vestry has
plate tracery.
Interior: Nave of 3-bay arcade, late C12-early C13, possible
adaptation of earlier Saxon nave (tall with 600 mm walls). North
aisle has short cylindrical columns with capitals of early stiff
leaf form similar to Great Bedwyn (q.v.). Two-order semi-circular
arches and square billet hoodmould. C17 roof. South aisle
similar but taller columns and chamfered pointed arches. East
capital with 4 heads and central capital round. Arcade corbelled
on east impost. Panelled roofs to aisles. Walls colourwashed.
Triple chamfered tower arch, double chamfered chancel arch, latter
without interruption. Chancel with C19 patterned tiling and barrel
vaulted roof. Two steps to Sanctuary. C19 piscina and cusped
stone reredos panel. Fittings: font, C19, by south door.
Limestone, octagonal and brass fittings to cover. Pulpit, C19,
oak, octagonal on stone base. Sanctuary rails C19. Furniture:
Organ, small, by Brygeson Bros, London. Monuments: South Aisle: 2
C19 wall tablets, white marble on slate; 1859, to HENRY ROWLAND of
Ramsbury, and 1860, to JANE TROTHOWAN and EDWARD POTTER of
Chisbury. Brass war memorial. (Reference Pevsner, Sir N.
Buildings of England: Wiltshire.)
Listing NGR: SU2911566203
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310864
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69181
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/242358
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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