CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SPURRIERGATE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1256593
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SPURRIERGATE

User submitted image — Uploaded by Charles Watson This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2001-07-22
Reference:: IOE01/04208/02
Rights:: © Mr Martin Roberts. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1256593
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SPURRIERGATE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SPURRIERGATE

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

District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 60294 51694

Details

YORK

SE6051NW SPURRIERGATE 1112-1/28/928 (South West side) 14/06/54 Church of St Michael

GV I

Parish church, now pastoral centre. Late C12 arcades, heightened in C15; C14 north wall, partly rebuilt 1868; mid C15 tower; church size reduced in 1821, when east end and south aisle were rebuilt; tower lowered 1966-67; refurbished 1989. Alterations of 1821 by JB and W Atkinson. MATERIALS: coursed magnesian limestone and tooled gritstone; tiled roofs to church, pyramidal roof of slate to tower. Aisled nave and sanctuary, with embraced west tower. EXTERIOR: east end and south side on double chamfered plinth, with embattled parapet over moulded eaves string. Both sides have three windows of four cinquefoiled lights with panel traceried heads and hoodmoulds, over moulded sill string. Sillstring stepped up at north end of east wall to form hoodmould over shallow-arched doorway containing plank door with attached 'Gothick' tracery. At west end of south wall is a painted clock face. North side partly obscured by No.24 Spurriergate (qv) has chamfered plinth; to the west are two 4-light windows as above. 2-stage embattled tower has recessed doorway approached by steps between offset buttresses on cut-back moulded plinths. Doorway is 4-centred, of two hollow chamfered orders beneath hoodmould on head stops and contains original double doors with blind Perpendicular tracery to upper part, lower part remade with C18 fielded panels and panelled wicket door. Above is arched window of four cinquefoiled lights with panel tracery, and hoodmould. To north of tower, beneath gabled roof, 4-light window with renewed mullions and blocked traceried head in chamfered opening. To south, similar window to those in south wall. On each side of tower are quadrant-shaped rainwater heads, dated 1821 and 1834 respectively. INTERIOR: panelled reredos against east wall in form of Palladian arch with fluted Corinthian pilasters, frieze with shell and palm mouldings carved in relief, and enriched cornice: incorporates round-headed Commandment, Creed and Paternoster boards. Other carvings include dove in glory in head of central panel, winged cherub heads over flanking panels, and St Michael slaying a dragon above, between urns. Communion rails are richly carved turned balusters between panelled standards, with heavy moulded handrail, carved with foliage. North and south arcades of three and half bays of 2-centred arches of two chamfered orders, on piers of four clustered columns with waterleaf capitals and hollow chamfered abaci, and with moulded bases below present floor level. Tower arches of three hollow chamfered orders on piers and responds of eight clustered columns and shafts with C15 replica

waterleaf capitals and moulded bases. East arch closed by fine pedimented doorcase with double doors of raised and fielded panels in eared and fasciated architrave. Doorcase frieze carved with acanthus beneath enriched cornice and segmental pediment enclosing a mask and foliage trails. Above is a George IV hatchment. STAINED GLASS: includes: early C15 glass, reset in south aisle windows, includes: John the Baptist, at east end; The Nine Orders of Angels to east; The Tree of Jesse in centre; panels depicting Noah building the Arc and St Margaret slaying the Dragon to west. Other glass, including north aisle east end, by J Barnett, c1821. FITTINGS: include: clock mechanism in south-west corner inscribed: "Reconstructed by G J F Newey 1896"; two painted Mayoral boards with the City of York arms and royal ciphers for George II and George III respectively. MONUMENTS: include: north aisle - white marble tablet on grey marble backing, to William Harrison, d.1799, and others; moulded stone monument to Elizabeth Bath, d.1730. South aisle - white and grey marble tablet with Coppinger arms, to Katherine Coppinger, d.1763; white marble monument backed by grey veined marble obelisk, to William Hutchinson, d.1772, signed by the Fishers; pedimented tablet with cartouche, in coloured marble, to John Wood, d.1704, and other members of his family. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 40-43).

Listing NGR: SE6029551694

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 464760
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 40-43

Legal

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