Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229137
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1229137
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- 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.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterbourne Steepleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 62912 89804
Details
WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON SY 68 NW STEEPLETON VILLAGE
8/154 Church of St Michael 26-1-56 GV I
Parish Church. C11 quoins to nave, C12 nave rebuilt, C14 west tower and porch, C15 chancel, C17 and C18 alterations, blockings and repairs. West Tower, Nave, Chancel, South porch. Rubble-stone walls with Ham stone dressings. Slate roofs. Nave retains long-and-short work quoins, C12 north and south doorways, north blocked, both plain with roll-moulded label. Fenestration is C15, windows of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a two-centred head. Labels and head-stops. South wall at west end has an early C18 window of 2 lights for the west gallery. West Tower, 3 stages, 2 stages diagonal buttresses, surmounted by a plain parapet. Later (C18) octagonal stone spire with corner pinnacles. Chancel: has a C15 south window of 2 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a 2-centred head with a label. C19 east window. South porch has a C14 outer entrance with chamfered jambs and a 2-centred head under a label. For full architectural description and fittings; see: (RCHM Dorset II, p.395(1))
Listing NGR: SY6291289806
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403855
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 395
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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