Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1346434
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1346434
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 75984 45200
Details
HUMBERSIDE EAST YORKSHIRE 5268 SE 74 NE THORNTON MAIN STREET (south side)
5/61 Church of St Michael 26.1.67
- II*
Church. C12, enlarged in C14. West end rebuilt and bellcote added 1890-92 by Ewan Christian. Coursed squared rubble with some cobbles and brick: freestone dressings to openings. Timber-framed bellcote, slate roof. 3-bay nave with north aisle and west bellcote, 2-bay chancel. Nave: buttress with offsets. 2 square-headed 2-light windows with ogee tracery, and trefoil- headed lancet to extreme east, flanking pointed south door with continuous double hollow chamfers under hood-mould. Similar door to north wall under filleted hood-mould with face-stops. Chamfered corbel table. Bellcote: timber louvres and pyramidal roof under wind-vane. Chancel: 2 square-headed windows of 2 round-headed cusped lights each: over the mullions is a similar, inverted, cusped motif. Round-arched priests' door with continuous narrow chamfer. 3-light pointed east window with intersecting tracery, raised coped gable with cross finial. Interior: no arcade to north aisle. Early C19 organ case with inlaid wood. C19 octagonal font on cylindrical pier and octagonal base.
Listing NGR: SE7598445200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167680
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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