Church of St. Michael

Church of St. Michael, Lower Green, Inkpen

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1290597
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: Church of St. Michael
Statutory Address:: Church of St. Michael, Lower Green, Inkpen

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1290597
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: Church of St. Michael
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St. Michael, Lower Green, Inkpen

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:: Church of St. Michael, Lower Green, Inkpen

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

District:: West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Inkpen
National Grid Reference:: SU 35770 63776

Details

SU 36 SE 15/29

INKPEN LOWER GREEN Church of St. Michael

6.2.52

II*

Church. C13 foundation, extensively restored and rebuilt 1896-7 by C.C. Rolfe in Early English style. Flint walls with Bath stone dressings, tile hung and lead roofed belfry and tiled main roof. Nave, Chancel, north aisle and south porch, steeply pitched roof with gable parapets and short square belfry over west end.

South elevation: two-light window to left, gabled south porch, five-light square headed window under label mould, two-light window under two-centred arched label mould.

East end has three simple lancets.

Interior: six bays, roof double purlins on trusses with arch braces to ties and queen struts above, simple arcade of three wide arches to north aisle. Carved timber rood screen with rood and figures of Mary and John, by Harry Hems of Exeter. In the chancel lies a weathered stone effigy of a crusader knight, under the belfry are two re-set C18 memorials, to the left in white and grey marble a casket surmounted by an urn to Mrs. Audrey Brickerden and Mrs. Catherine Fisher, 1727 and 1728 and to the right in brown, grey and white marble a pedimented casket on a base flanked by flaming urns to John Fisher of Bristol 1765.

Listing NGR: SU3577063776

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Legacy System number:: 394835
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 204
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 158
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,

Legal

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