Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1302276
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/01483/10
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1302276
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sopley
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 15646 96715
Details
SZ 19 NE SOPLEY CHURCH LANE
11/16 Church of St Michael and
30.9.64 All Angels
GV II*
Parish church. C13, earlier origins, restored C15, C19 & C20. Rubble iron-stone
with Binstead stone dressings, brick rebuilding (part rendered), plain tile and
lead roofs. Plan of chancel much altered, nave with transept, and aisles and west
tower, rebuilt, embraced by aisles. East end of chancel has restored C15 Perpendic-
ular 3-light cinquefoiled window and set-back buttresses. To south pointed lancet
and doorway, and C15 squareheaded 3-light cinquefoiled window. To north brick
buttress, pointed lancet and similar C15 window. North transept has C13 triple
trefoiled lancet side windows, to north C19 3-light window and made-up opening in
gable dated 1676. South transept has angle buttresses and restored C15 4-light
window. Crossing of nave has wall around low pitched roof. To south aisle
eastern C15 squareheaded window and mock-stone C20 vestry, large west buttress. To
north C15 2-light squareheaded windows and large gabled porch with hollow moulded
doorway and reset medieval carving over. At west large C19 timber Perpendicular
window. Either side tall stepped buttresses to shortened west tower with parapet
having finials on corners and short leaded spire. Inside chancel old rere-arches
some old stained-glass to east, and barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling. Monuments, 1786
to Ann Willis, 1819 to James Willis, 1804 to Wadham Wyndham, and 1780 to Peter Noyes.
At south west low-set lancet with squint from transept. Much restored 2-centred
chancel arch. Above on nave side fresco of crucifixion by J Emms, 1869. Heavy
crossing arches to transepts, with double wave moulding. In north transept C13
and C14 piscina and corbel heads. Organ in south transept. To west 2 bay C14
arcades, on octagonal piers. Tower stands on 3 open arches. North aisle into
transept supported by 2 c1400 heads. Plain north door, either side, fixed to wall,
2 Purbeck marble effigies of C13, under trefoiled canopies. On wall war memorial
by Eric Gill. In south aisle C15 door and medieval coffin lid. C19 arch-braced
king-post roof on old corbel heads. C17 octagonal pulpit. Under tower retooled
C14 font. Either side C16 linen-fold panelling. South west arms board. VCH;
Vol IV; 1912; p130-1. Buildings of England, Hampshire; N Pevsner; 1966; p509-10.
Listing NGR: SZ1673798427
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1912), 130-1
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 509-10
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48974
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/48975
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/76232
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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