Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371006
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371006
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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 AND ALL ANGELS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 94466 37402
Details
FORD FORD VILLAGE
NT 9437
17/97 Church of St.
21.9.51 Michael and
All Angels
GV II*
Parish church. C13, extensively restored 1853 by John Dobson. Squared stone;
nave has Welsh slate roof, chancel clay tile roof. Nave with aisles, south
porch, chancel and north vestry; west bellcote.
Three-bay nave with porch to left. Each bay has pair of lancets; drip moulds
with head stops, the detail of 1853. South-west and south-east angle buttresses
are medieval; the eastern one has two trefoiled niches. North aisle of 1853.
West projection rising to monumental 2-tier bellcote, with paired lancet bell
openings on 1st tier and single lancet above, stone pyramidal roof. Window to
north of projection is an original lancet.
Five-bay chancel has C19 lancets with head stops. Three-light Geometric east
window.
Interior: early C13 two-bay south arcade has round piers and bases, octagonal
capitals and pointed double-chamfered arches; west pier has dogtooth. Octagonal
responds, the west respond with a C13 head stop. North arcade and chancel arch
by Dobson. West lancet has shouldered rere-arch. Trefoiled piscina in south-
east corner of nave. Six medieval grave slabs or parts of slabs set in floor
at west end of nave. Elaborate Decorated stone reredos of 1892 by W.S. Hicks.
War memorial of c.1920 in coloured marble with ceramic picture of St. George.
Northumberland County History: Volume XI.
Listing NGR: NT9446637402
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 21 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238064
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vickers, K H, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes Carham Branxton Kirknewton Wooler and Ford, Vol. 11, (1922)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 21 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33463
War Memorials Online, accessed 21 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/155432
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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