CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345121
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- Mendip (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Cuthbert Out
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57516 44601
Details
ST54SE DINDER CP CHURCH STREET (South side)
15/39 Church of St Michael
22.11.66
GV II*
Anglican Parish Church. Norman establishment, some C14 work, rebuilt C15, restored 1872 with rebuilt chancel and added
organ chamber. Coursed and squared rubble and ashlar, lead sheeting roofs, coped verge. Perpendicular. Nave, chancel,
north aisle, north organ chamber, south porch, west tower. Embattled 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, gargoyles,
2-light bell chamber windows with Somerset-type tracery, stone grilles, topping embattled stair turret, clock, west
window, west door. Three bay embattled nave, each aerlon enriched by a foiled niche, gargoyles, pinnacles, 2-light
windows, 2 with square heads and one with a pointed head. Porch with parapet and coping, diagonal buttresses,
gargoyles, shafted outer door opening, benched interior on flagstone floor, C19 roof on corbels carved as heads.
Three-bay aisle, embattled in conforming style to nave, buttresses, gargoyles, pinnacles, 3-light pointed-head windows,
door. Three-bay chancel, reset single and 2-light Decorated windows, 3-light Perpendicular east window. Organ chamber
in Perpendicular style, pierced parapet. Interior plastered on flagstone floor; roofs of the restoration; to nave and
aisle on corbels carved as angels. Three bay arcade to aisle, piers of 4-hollow section; chamfered chancel and tower
arches, possibly earlier than the C15. Arches to organ chamber of 1872. Norman dragon heads reset in the chancel over a
south window. Good stone pulpit dated 1621, with rosettes, fleur-de-lis and symbols of the Trinity. Octagonally
Perpendicular font, a quatrefoil to each face. Piscina also Perpendicular. Pews, choir stalls, altar rails, organ,
reredos and screen late C19. Iron candelabrae. Five late C18-early C19 monuments under tower; elaborate mid C19
monument over north door. Window to south of nave with reset medieval glass fragaents; 8 late C19 stained glass
windows. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5751644601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268058
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
