Church of St Michael on the Mount

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL ON THE MOUNT, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388497
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Church of St Michael on the Mount
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL ON THE MOUNT, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388497
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Church of St Michael on the Mount
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL ON THE MOUNT, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL ON THE MOUNT, CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
Lincoln (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 97695 71685

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE CHRIST HOSPITAL TERRACE
1941-1/9/76 (South side)
02/10/69 Church of St Michael on the Mount

GV II

Church. 1855-56. By SS Teulon. Dressed stone and ashlar, with
slate roofs. Geometrical style.
PLAN: nave with north aisle, vestry, chancel with bell turret,
south transept, south porch.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth and eaves, coped gables, buttresses
except on north side. Pointed arched windows.
Nave, 4 bays, has four 2-light windows to south. West end has
a traceried 5-light window with hoodmould. North aisle has
three 2-light windows.
Vestry has to north 3 round windows flanked by segmental
pointed doorways. At each end, a 2-light window, that to east
with an ogee head. Gabled stack at the corner.
Chancel has a triple gabled polygonal apse with beast stops
and spouts, and three 2-light windows. Above, a buttressed
octagonal bell turret with spire and finial.
Transept has to south a traceried 4-light window with roll
moulded reveal and hoodmould. In each side, a single lancet.
To east, a segmental pointed door and a side wall stack.
South porch has a double filleted roll moulded doorway with
double shafts and hoodmould. Above, an unglazed trefoil. In
each side, a double lancet. Inside, stone seats and an arch
braced common rafter roof, filleted roll moulded doorway with
single shafts and hoodmould.
INTERIOR: nave, rendered, has an arch braced crown post roof.
North side has a 6 bay arcade to the raised north aisle, with
small lancets in the 2 eastern arches. To east, a stairwell
containing an elaborate organ case and a dogleg stair to the
vestry. West window has stained glass, 1928.
Chancel has filleted roll moulded arch with imposts, panelled
dado and reredos, sill band, and complex multi-gabled roof
with arched principal rafters. Three C19 stained glass
windows.
South transept has a 2-bay arcade with quatrefoil central pier
and double chamfered arches and C20 Perpendicular style
screen. Roof similar to nave. C19 stained glass east window
and Perpendicular style reredos, 1909, removed from St Paul in
the Bail.
FITTINGS include octagonal oak pulpit, octagonal panelled font
and panelled benches, all C19.
MEMORIALS include a marble and ashlar inscribed tablet with


cornice, 1837-38, by Durance, to William and Elizabeth
Wilkinson, master and matron of the Bluecoat school. Kneeling
and standing supporters in Bluecoat School uniform. Medieval
style brass in frame, with figure, 1856. Round headed brass
war memorial, 1919.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 499).




Listing NGR: SK9769571685

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
485942
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 499

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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