Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349854
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349854
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brimfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 52684 67493
Details
SO 56 NW BRIMFIELD CP BRIMFIELD
4/3 Church of St Michael
11.6.59 GV II*
Parish church. C13, partly rebuilt 1834, restored 1884, 1904-5 and extended 1908. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. C13 west tower (raised C16), nave and chancel of 1834, north porch and vestry of 1908. West tower: three stages, the belfry is close-studded timber-framing, probably C16, with louvred openings of two lights on each side. First stage has a small semi-circular headed window on north and south walls. Ground stage has a C19 window with a two-centred head which cuts through a small semi-circular headed window. In north wall a blocked door with semi-elliptical head. Nave of three bays, in north wall two windows each of two trefoiled lights under a two-centred head with label. The porch at the west end of 1908 is timber-framed on a stone plinth with rendered infill. Chancel of one bay with a window of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in head under two- centred arch with label. East window of three trefoiled lights, tracery in head under two-centred arch. Gable north vestry of 1908. Interior: two- centred tower arch of one chamfered order with moulded label. Chancel arch semi-elliptical and plastered. Ceilings are plastered segmental vaults. Fittings: C19 pulpit with three panelled sides, the panels with pierced ogee cinquefoiled heads. Lectern of wrought iron and brass in Arts and Crafts style. Font, C13 with quatrefoil bowl on C19 quatrefoil stem and moulded base. Wall tablet to John Rose Hall, died 1858, on north wall of chancel, surmounted by an urn, and signed "T Gaffyn". On south wall tablet to Edward Pritchett, died 1834. (RCHM, III, p 25; BoE, p 86).
Listing NGR: SO5268467493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150024
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 25
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 86
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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