ST MICHAELS CHURCH

ST MICHAELS CHURCH, UPPER ORWELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237413
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH
Statutory Address:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH, UPPER ORWELL STREET

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Date:: 2007-04-06
Reference:: IOE01/16391/22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237413
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH, UPPER ORWELL STREET

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:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH, UPPER ORWELL STREET

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM 16751 44526

Details

UPPER ORWELL STREET 1260 (east side) TM 1644 NE 2/462A St Michael's Church

II

Parish church. c1880, with chancel added 1890. Designed by E.F.Bisshopp. Built by Robert Girling. Nave and aisles with chancel and western bellcote. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Chamfered plinth with angle butresses with set-offs. Western, entrance front has projecting central porch with coped gables, kneelers and a cross finial. Pointed outer arched doorway with hood mould and label stops, and above a small circular window. Above a 3 light pointed arched window with geometrical tracery, and a hood mould and label stops. The gable is topped by a gabled bellcote with a pair of pointed arched openings with bells. The western walls of the aisles each have a pair of plain lancets. The clerestory has a single large through eaves dormer window on either side, each with 3 lancets. The eastern wall has a large pointed arched window with a hood mould and label stops, within this are three, triple light windows with intersecting tracery, the central one taller. Interior has simple blue brick polychromatic patterning on the walls. 5 bay nave arcade with circular piers with fine carved capitals and moulded brick arches. Elaborate wooden nave roof, and contemporary fittings.

Listing NGR: TM1675144526

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Legacy System number:: 428668
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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