Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BROADWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1184780
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BROADWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1184780
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, BROADWAY
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, BROADWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34181 49856
Details
NZ34NW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING BROADWAY (east side)
7/18 Church of St. Michael 26.4.50 and All Angels (formerly listed as G.V. St Michael's Church) I
Parish church. Late C12 and C13 chancel; C14 nave arcades and west wall; C15 and C19 vestries; C19 aisles, porch, upper-stage of tower. Alterations to tower probably by Hardwick. Sandstone; roof of Westmorland slate. 4-bay nave, north and south aisles and south porch; 2-bay transepts; chancel with south vestry and a second south-east vestry of 2 storeys. Buttresses diagonal to chancel and tower, angle to transepts and nave. Pinnacled tower of 2 stages; crenellations to vestry; steep-pitched roofs have overlapping stone coping to nave gable, flat to chancel and transepts. Interior : 4-bay nave arcades have double-chamfered arches and 8-shaft columns with fillets. 6-bay chancel has small round-headed door in north wall with tympanum, 8 lancet windows on south. Octagonal font. Monuments in south transept: chest tomb of Bernard Gilpin, died 1583, with strapwork decoration and arms; brass to Margery Bellasis - her children, kneeling - died 1587; wall tomb with C13 effigy of knight; and another effigy of a knight. Grave slabs in floor have arms of Ralph Carr of Cocken Hill died 1709; of Nicholas Conyers High Sheriff of Durham died 1686. Source: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, series 3, volume V, 45-62
Listing NGR: NZ3418649853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303174
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Vol. 5, (), 45-62
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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