CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215248
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215248
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1969
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Elmley Lovett
National Grid Reference:: SO 86552 69673

Details

ELMLEY LOVETT CP ELMLEY LOVETT SO 86 NE 5/43 Church of St Michael 14.3.69 GV II*

Parish church. C14 tower, remainder rebuilt 1839-1840 by John Mills. Ashlar, tile roof. Chancel, nave, west tower. Tower: C14, three stages, recessed octagonal spire, battlemented parapet with three corner pinnacles (north-west pinnacle missing), diagonal buttresses to ground floor, roll moulding to corner above, 1840 additions (single storey) on north and south side of tower provide porches; tall window to second stage (belfry) with semi-circular head; square headed window to first stage; in ground floor west wall a restored window of three lights with trefoiled heads under 2-centred head. Nave: battlemented parapet, diagonal buttresses, four bays divided by stepped buttresses with large lancet windows, each with label. Chancel: two bays to south wall, lancet to east bay, other blank; east wall: three stepped lancets, roundel above inscribed "SUB CRUCE CANDIDA 1840". Interior: chancel arch 2-centred and chamfered; roof: nave: seven bays, chancel two bays, collar trusses. Fittings: late C19 font, C17 altar table, a hatchment and the Royal arms. The church stands in the middle of a deserted medieval village. (VCH 3, p 110; BoE, p 144; H Colvin, 1978, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - 1840, London).

Listing NGR: SO8655269673

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Legacy System number:: 400332
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 144

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.