Church of St Michael (including tower)
Church of St Michael, Poole Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324732
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael (including tower)
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Michael, Poole Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324732
- Date first listed:
- 05-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael (including tower)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Michael, Poole Road
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, Poole Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 07943 91197
Details
768/9/8
POOLE ROAD (north side)
Church of St Michael (including tower)
05-MAY-52
GV
II*
1873-76, R. Norman Shaw, tower 1900-1, John Oldrid Scott. Shaw's church conventional externally: high clerestory with coupled lancets, wider spaced lancets to aisles, gabled south porch, triple-chamfered arch. Lean-to western narthex, 1930 by W.D Caröe.
Chancel windows are groups of traceried lancets under relieving arches, five-light at east, three-light at sides. South east War Memorial Chapel, Y-tracery windows, 1920 by Sir T.G Jackson. North east gabled organ chamber and flat-roofed vestry (high chimney) attached by single-storey link (traceried, canted bay on west side) to Church Hall. Splendid high and massive tower at south east corner of nave: very tall couple two-light belfry windows with two transoms and Y-tracery, big polygonal pinnacles on clasping buttresses with many set-offs, gabled doorway to south, gabled stair-turret to north east.
Interior with five-bay nave arcades, triple-chamfered on circular columns, clerestory windows with boldly unmoulded splays, connected at top by double-chamfered inner arches, each pair framed by sharp triangular shafts on corbels, with stringcourse below and continuous cornice. Roof of three posts on tiebeam, open canted rafters.
Elaborate but conventional furnishings by R.G Pinder: pulpit 1889 (sculptor, W.J Warren, alabaster panels, green colonnettes, pink marble arches); murals in chancel 1889 (painted by Cox Sons, Buckley and Co); reredos 1884 (English altar with Majestas added circa 1925).
Stained glass: twenty good aisle windows by Henry Holiday for Powells, circa 1880, east window by Mayer and Sons of Munich 1882 west window by Christopher Whall 1913. Sculpture in War Memorial Chapel by Sir George Frampton.
The Church and Church Hall of St Michael form a group.
Listing NGR: SZ0794391197
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:
- 101815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51263
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51270
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51268
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51266
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51267
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51264
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51262
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/51269
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/74075
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/74074
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/74080
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/74077
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/74081
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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