Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370929
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- 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:
- 1370929
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- 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:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilderton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 01733 21851
Details
NU 02 SW ILDERTON ILDERTON
13/66 Church of St. Michael 21/9/51
GV II*
Parish church. Tower partly C13. The rest late C18, slightly Gothicized late C19. Older parts dressed stone, the rest ashlar. Scottish slate roof.
Tower, nave, chancel and north vestry.
Tower: C13, 1-light west window with cusped head. Broad offset angle buttresses. Round-arched south doorway under pent roof, and battlemented upper section with simple arched bell openings, added C18.
3-bay nave with plinth, sill band and pointed-arched windows in raised surrounds with impost blocks. Thin Victorian wooden tracery. North wall blank.
l-bay chancel with polygonal apse. Late Victorian Decorated east window.
Gabled roof to nave with kneelers and splayed coping.
Interior: Nave floor is on much higher level than tower, hence the low but steeply-pointed tower arch with chamfers and plain imposts.
Round chancel arch with moulded keystone.
Small font dated 1727 with slender, elaborately-decorated shaft and cherubs' heads on bowl.
C14 grave cover in floor of tower.
History of Northumberland: Vol. VII.
Listing NGR: NU0173321851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crawford Hodgson, J, A History of Northumberland in The Parish of Edlingham with the Chapelry of Bolton The Parish of Felton with the Chapelery of Framlingham The Chapelry or Parish of Brinkburn, (1904)
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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