Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1232799
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- 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:
- 1232799
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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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:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75210 36233
Details
SP 73 NE THORNTON
4/176 Church of St. Michael
13/7/66
GV I
Parish church. C14, N. aisle rebuilt and church restored 1850. Nave, aisles, W. tower; chancel demolished 1780 when interior of church refurnished. Coursed rubble stone, lead roofs. W. tower of three stages with diagonal buttresses to lower stage, small cusped lancets to second stage and 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber; battlemented parapet, gargoyles, wrought iron weather vane in form of key. W. side has three steps to hollow chamfered arched doorway under label with worn carved head stops, 2-light Decorated window above. Nave has parapet to S. wall with blind tracery ornament, no clerestory. Aisles have crude battlements to E. and W. and three bays of 2-light Decorated windows with ogee tracery. C19 3-light Decorated E. window with reticulated tracery. Interor: Nave of four bays has double chamfered arcade on octagonal piers with moulded caps. Flat plaster ceiling with Gothick cornice, black and white marble paving. C14 chancel arch incorporated in E. wall. Fittings of c.1780 include box pews in aisles and double-decker pulpit in E. bay of N. aisle. W. gallery has pointed arched panels. Some C19 glass. Monuments: recumbent alabaster effigies to John Barton and wife, mid C15. flanking entry to nave. Re-assembled monument in centre of nave to Robert Ingylton and three wives 1472: re-assembled stone tomb chest with ogee niches and figures; fine brass of frour figures and 16 children under elaborate canopy of four ogee arches with crockets and finials. Brass to Jane Ingleton 1557 in E. bay of nave.
RCHM II pp 298-9
Listing NGR: SP7521236235
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408201
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)
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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