Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204060
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204060
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolverstone
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19021 38583
Details
TM 1938 WOOLVERSTONE WOOLVERSTONE PARK 7/42 Church of St Michael 22.2.55 - II* Church. C14. C15 tower, C16 porch. Extensive restoration of 1862 by Sir G G Scott. Additions and alterations of 1888 by St Aubyn and Wadling for Captain Hugh Berners. Tower of rubble flint and septaria with ashlar dressings and flushwork to buttresses, renewed flushwork battlements: Otherwise, knapped flint with ashlar dressings (exterior walls of original section refaced) except porch of orange brick in English bond with dark brick diapering. Plain tile roofs. Perpendicular style. West tower, south porch, original nave and chancel now form scuth aisle to nave and chancel of 1888 and vestry to north. 2-stage tower on plinth with diagonal off-set buttresses. 5-light west window with Perpendicular tracery with restored mullions. Upper stage off-set on string course. 2-light Tudor-arched belfry opening. Single-light window to south, stair turret to north. String course with fleurons, angle gargoyles, battlement with crocketed pinnacles. Porch: Rendered plinth, diagonal off-set buttresses, 2-light windows with Y-tracery under hoodmoulds to sides. Tudor-arched entrance under hoodmould. Panel above now blank. Moulded tie beam to gable on short corbelled posts with arch braces. Studding and bargeboards to gable. South aisle: 4-light C19 window. Former chancel: priests door and 2 C19 windows. C19 nave, chancel and vestry have 2 and 3-light Perpendicular style windows. Foundation stone set in buttresses on north side of chancel reads: 'Laid by Hugh Berners Captain RN to the Glory of God Feast of St Michael and All Angels 1888'. East end of chancel: Band of flushwork beneath 5-light Perpendicular style window. Interior: Porch has brattished wall plates, cambered moulded tie beams on short posts on carved leaf corbels with arch braces with ornamented spandrels. Moulded beams and chamfered joists. Pointed entrance with continuously-moulded jambs and restored headstops. Tall tower arch, original plank door to stair turret. C19 4-bay arcade on cylindrical piers. Crown-post roof to nave and aisle. Hammer beam roof to chancel. C15 octagonal font on base with supporting lions has panels with alternating lions and angels. C19 Gothic style cover. Piscina to south chapel. C19 fittings include pulpit, rood screen and canopied stone sedilia by Thomas Earp. Vestry contains wall monument with broken segmen- tal pediment with hatchment on Corinthian columns containing plaque with Latin inscription to Phillip Bacon of Shrubland d.1635. Bust to the Ven.Henry Denny Berners (1801-1834), by R Westmacott Jun.,1839.
Listing NGR: TM1901938579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 277321
- 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.
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