Parish Church of St Michael
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290027
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290027
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toseland
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24021 62596
Details
TL 26 SW TOSELAND HIGH STREET (North Side) 2/98 Parish Church 14.5.59 of St. Michael
GV II*
Parish church, originally a chapelry to Great Paxton. Mid C12, of which only the chancel arch and south wall survive. North wall of nave rebuilt in C18. Chancel rebuilt and church restored in 1873 by A. Blomfield (1829-99). The vestry was added in 1897. Walls of pebble-rubble and brick with original dressings of Barnack stone and modern dressings of Bath stone. Tile roofs. South elevation has four round-headed windows including one original window enriched by bead-ornament to the nave, and two modern chancel windows. Mid C12 south doorway has a semi-circular head with contemporary ornament on each moulded order and supported on detached shafts with scalloped capitals, moulded abaci and bases. Interior. The chancel arch restored with original, and modern stone, has attached shafts with carved capitals. RCHM (Hunts) p275. VCH (Hunts) p275. Pevsner: Buildings of England, p356.
Listing NGR: TL2402162596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 275
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1932), 275
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough, (1968), 356
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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