Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1214937
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/04517/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1214937
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Claydon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70521 26743
Details
SP 72 NW STEEPLE CLAYDON QUEEN CATHERINE ROAD (north side)
4/116 Church of St. Michael 13.7.66
GV II*
Parish church. C14 chancel, nave altered C15 and heightened C16-17. Restored 1842 and 1875 by Sir G.G. Scott and J. Oldrid Scott. C19 transepts, N. aisle, S. porch and W. tower. Coursed rubble stone with brick to transepts and E. wall of nave. Tiled roofs coped gables. Tower of 3 stages in Decorated style with broach spire and stair turret to N.E. S. wall of nave has 2 C15 paired cusped lancets with flat hoodmoulds and clerestory of C16-C17 rectangular windows with paired arched lights. N. wall' of nave has C19 clerestory of 2-light windows with ogee tracery, hidden by steeply gabled roof of N. aisle, Similar windows to N. aisle. Transepts have re-used Perpendicular 3-light windows with ogee tracery and carved head label stops to N. and S. S. transept has mid C18 memorial plaques set in W. and S. walls. Chancel has Decorated 2-light windows, 2 to S., one to N, C19 vestry to N. in angle with transept. Small door to S. dated 1631. Decorated E. window of 3 lights has flowing tracery. Interior: C19 N. arcade of nave has 3 bays of chamfered arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps, C19 chancel arch on triple shafts. Aumbry, piscina and sedile in form of window seat, all restored Q19, C19 roofs. All Cl9 work in Decorated style with naturalistic carved foliage caps. Fittings: C15 octagonal font with C17 cover; C15 pews, restored; C17 pulpit, other fittings C19, Monument to Sir Harry and Lady Eliza Verney with marble profile medallions dated 1839 by Kummel.
RCHM II p. 272.
Listing NGR: SP7052126743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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