Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383760
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- 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:
- 1383760
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- 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:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheathill
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 62107 79852
Details
WHEATHILL
SO67NW SILVINGTON
482-1/7/202 Church of St Michael
12/11/54
GV II*
Church. C12 and C14 with C17 additions and alterations, C19
restoration. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Plain-tile
roofs.
PLAN: chancel, nave with south porch, and west tower
asymmetrically set against nave. Nave in 2 widths, having been
extended into part of chancel.
EXTERIOR: chancel with restored paired cusped lancets on east
and south sides. Nave north door blocked leaving C12 round
arch exposed. 2 restored paired cusped lancets on both north
and south sides of nave. South doorway has plain tympanum
under bold roll-moulding set in recessed semicircular panel
over tympanum, with scalloped capitals with cable-moulding,
column shafts set in recess on C12 base to west and modified
later base to east. Door is studded, boarded and cross-boarded
with iron strap hinges, bearing date 1679. South porch: tiled
gabled porch with round-arched entrance in stone walls dated
1662. Plain late C12 tower with Transitional west lancet and
restored battlements.
INTERIOR: plastered ceilings and walls. Restored pointed
chancel arch. C17 carved timber panelling around altar. Late
C12 pointed single-stepped tower arch set on hollow chamfered
abaci and debased flat-leafed capitals, below which a diagonal
inset cuts across the stepping of the responds. C12 plain
circular font. Armorial tablet to Edward Mytton d.1683.
Inscription over south porch entrance: "This porch was built
by John Hil, Gent and Ursula his widow 1662".
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: 1958-: 289).
Listing NGR: SO6210779852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 289
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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