Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371184
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- 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:
- 1371184
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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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:
- Longhoughton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 24853 17398
Details
NU 2417 LONGHOUGHTON HOWICK HALL
16/125 Church of St. Michael 31.12.69 GV II
Parish Church. 1746, remodelled with extension of nave one bay to east and addition of chancel and vestry 1849 by F.J. Francis. Tooled-and-margined ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings; synthetic stone slate roof. Five-bay aisleless nave with chancel and south vestry. 1746 building Classical, remodelled in Romanesque style.
Nave has moulded plinth and sill bands, impost bands on side walls and shafted angle pilasters. West end has central boarded door, with studded margin and ornate C-hinges, under round arch of 4 moulded orders; 3 orders of jamb shafts with carved capitals. World War I memorial tablet on right of door. 2 windows above, with double-shafted jambs, and wheel window under round-arched bellcote with finial cross. Side walls of nave have windows with double- shafted jambs carrying moulded inner orders and C18 pilasters carrrying outer order with zigzag. Eaves cornice on corbels, carved on north but unfinished on south. Coincident joints in plinth and bands mark the 1849 extension. Chancel has chamfered plinth, moulded sill string and shafted angles. East end has three equal-height windows, with double-shafted jambs, and trefoiled round window above. Lower vestry on south shows two-light south window and moulded boiler-room door on east. On north of chancel a moulded priest's door, and window with foliage-carved caps to jamb shafts. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; finial crosses.
Interior plastered. Moulded chancel arch on detached shafts with carved bases, shaft rings and foliage-carved caps. All windows have shafted inner jambs with carved caps. Carved cornice in chancel. Nave has collar-beam roof with braces on moulded stone corbels; scissor-brace chancel roof. Ornate C19 Romanesque font.
Monuments. Charles, second Earl Grey d.1845, in nave (originally in chancel); white marble table tomb with inlaid brass foliate cross and enamelled shields, designed by John Francis and carved by J. Bedford. On south of sanctuary carved Grey arms in cusped panel are part of former canopy to this monument. C17 Grey ledger stones in sanctuary.
Listing NGR: NU2485317398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237016
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 31 Northumberland,
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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