Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, GREAT COATES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379845
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, GREAT COATES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379845
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, GREAT COATES ROAD
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, GREAT COATES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 24139 09020
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2409SW GREAT COATES ROAD, Little Coates
699-1/20/103 (East side)
06/06/51 Church of St Michael
I
Church. C14-C15 nave and south aisle; chancel dated 1691;
north addition of 1913-14 by Walter Tapper, consisting of west
tower, new nave and chancel in C13 style. Early section in
ironstone rubble, cobbles and ironstone ashlar with limestone
dressings; C20 section in limestone ashlar. Green slate roof,
apart from south aisle with lead roof.
PLAN: early section has 4-bay nave with 3-bay south aisle and
single-bay chancel. C20 section has 4-bay nave with 4-bay
chancel and west tower with west door.
EXTERIOR: early section with chamfered plinth. Former chancel,
now side chapel, has small carved decorated stone tablet to
south wall dated 1691; pointed 4-light east window with
Perpendicular tracery. South aisle: pointed chamfered south
door, pair of square-headed 2-light south windows with
Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds. Early nave has on west
side a small C20 2-light traceried window with hoodmould, and
a mutilated trefoiled niche incorporating a reused fragment of
an incised medieval grave slab.
C20 section: tall angle buttresses and buttresses between bays
with offsets. Chancel has pointed 3-light north and south
windows with simple tracery, pointed 7-light east window, with
a narrow blind cusped niche above flanked by single
quatrefoils. Nave has square-headed 2-light north windows with
reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds, with small quatrefoil
ventilation openings below, many now blocked; coped parapet.
Between nave and chancel is a tall octagonal stair turret with
pierced quatrefoil, slit lights and coped parapet. Coped
gables and a gabled sanctus bellcote at east end of nave with
buttresses and ogee bell-opening.
Squat tower of 2 stages: buttresses with offsets, pointed west
door of 2 wave-moulded orders beneath hoodmould;
segmental-pointed 4-light north window with trefoiled ogee
lights and hoodmould, pointed 2-light window above with
reticulated tracery and hoodmould. South side has stair turret
with slit lights. String course. Upper stage has narrow
single-light cinquefoiled belfry openings to north and south;
square-headed 2-light window to west. Plain parapet with
shield and IHS inscription to west. Low pyramidal roof.
INTERIOR: early section with 2-bay C14 south arcade with
double-chamfered arches on octagonal pier with plain moulded
capitals and arches dying into responds. Small stoup near
south door with pointed arch and octagonal bowl.
Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch with inner order on
moulded corbels, one with carved head. 3-bay roof to former
chancel with cranked tie-beams with pellet-mouldings and
carved bosses, the east truss adapted to form a hammerbeam in
order to accommodate the east window. C20 section: impressive
chancel with pointed chancel arch of 2 wave-moulded orders
with hoodmould and filleted quatrefoiled responds,
4-bay quadripartite vaulted roof carried on thin quatrefoiled
shafts with filleted ribs and elaborate carved bosses; moulded
window reveals with nook shafts. Stone reredos with
crenellated top and pair of pointed chamfered vestry doors
flanking the altar. Piscina with ogee trefoiled head,
crocketed ogee hood with finial and carved stops, bowl with
Green Man carving. Traceried wooden screens to chancel arch
and to side chapel.
Nave has 2-bay arcade to former chancel with pointed arches of
2 chamfered and wave-moulded orders on a quatrefoil pier with
arches dying into responds; 3-bay nave arcade of pointed
double-chamfered arches on round columns with plain moulded
bases and capitals, the arches dying into the responds. Tower
arch of 2 chamfered and wave-moulded orders dying into
responds; gallery with Latin inscription in Gothic lettering.
Carved octagonal pulpit. Octagonal font with cusped panels.
Monuments include a C13 tomb slab at base of tower.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 344; Grimsby Broough Council:
Action for Conservation: 1972-: NO.79).
Listing NGR: TA2413809020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 344
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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