ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER

ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER, TOR HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1345475
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER
Statutory Address:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER, TOR HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1345475
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER, TOR HILL

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:: ST MICHAELS CHURCH TOWER, TOR HILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Glastonbury
National Grid Reference:: ST5121838615

Details

1133 ST 5138 8/7 21.6.50

TOR HILL

St Michael's Church Tower (formerly listed as St Michael's Chapel) I

Only the tower, without the upper storey, remains from the medieval church. Said to date from late C13 with Perpendicular additions. Restored 1804. 3 storeys. Corner buttresses. Stringcourses. Perpendicular bell-openings and battlements. Sculptured tablet of eagle below parapet. 7 canopied niches in west face. Y-tracery to lower storey. Carved reliefs over deeply moulded west door. A dominant feature of the Somerset landscape. Scheduled Ancient Monument. In the care of the National Trust.

Listing NGR: ST5121838615

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Legacy System number:: 266011
Legacy System:: LBS

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