Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1296675
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1296675
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Breinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 47352 39527
Details
BREINTON CP - SO 43 NE 7/1 Church of St Michael
26.1.67
GV II
Parish church. C12 core almost entirely rebuilt and enlarged by P. R Kempson 1866 - 70. Coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roofs. Nave with bell turret, north aisle and south porch, chancel with north vestry. Nave: west rectangular bell turret with short octagonal broach spirelet. South front: paired trefoil-headed lights to left and group of three similar lights to right of gabled south porch; trefoil in roundel to both returns of porch. Three pairs of similar trefoil-headed lights to north aisle, vestigial remains of C12 semi-circular headed doorway to west end and re-set semi-circular headed light above. Chancel: two trefoiled ogee-headed lights to south; east window with three trefoiled ogee-headed lights. Contemporary late C19 interior; plain chancel arch and four-bay arcade to north aisle, stained glass in north aisle windows by Powell, 1874. Monuments: Rudhall Booth memorial 1685 wall tablet, painted wood with arms, rustic lettering. (BoE, p 84; RCHM Vol II, p 26). - -
Listing NGR: SO4735239527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 154187
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 26
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 84
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