ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY., SILVER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1230401
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY.
Statutory Address:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY., SILVER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1230401
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY.
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY., SILVER STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE. PRESBYTERY., SILVER STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lyme Regis
National Grid Reference:: SY 33760 92290

Details

SILVER STREET 1. 1357 (South West Side) Roman Catholic Church of St Michael and St George. Presbytery. SY 3392 3/208 II* GV 2. Foundation stone laid in 1835. Gothic style. Nave and chancel, octagonal belfry, presbytery, Rendered; Ham stone dressings. Nave of 3 bays, each with single-light lancet window and each flanked by a buttress. Entrance in north-east facing end which is gabled and flanked to either side by octagonal buttresses on square bases. 3-light lancet window above gabled porch; rose window above. Inside, chancel arch; low altar screen with pointed arched in stone; fine painted and gilded reredos. Connected to the north-west side of the chancel is the belfry tower; small octagonal room at base with lancet-headed niches (some opened up to form windows and doors). Exterior of belfry tower has to north-east facing side a tall single- light window with a trefoil opening above; octagonal spire. Presbytery to north- west; 2-storey; gabled porch with cusped bargeboard to left hand, incorporating within it a wide pointed fanlight with tracery; initialled plaque above, and, above this, single-light ogee window. At right hand end, and breaking forward, a wide gabled bay with a 3-light casement on 1st and ground floors. The Little Place and the north-east boundary wall, Rosehill and the garden wall, Burley, the 0ld Vicarage, the former stable block and the garden wall to Burley and Old Vicarage, West Hill and the garden wall, together with the Roman Catholic Church of St Michael and St George, and the Dorset Hotel, Pound Road form a group.

Listing NGR: SY3376092290

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Legacy System number:: 405321
Legacy System:: LBS

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