Description

SE40NW GREAT HOUGHTON CHURCH SWEEP,
(east side)
3/41 Church of St. Michael
and All Saints and
adjoining stone wall
to west side of
churchyard (formerly
listed as 'Parish
Church , no dedication')

II*

Presbyterian chapel now church. c1650, C20 addition. Reputedly for
Sir Edward Rhodes of Great Houghton Hall. Ashlar sandstone, weathered
and part rendered; C20 tile roof. Nave and chancel in one, west porch,
C20 flat-roofed addition to north-east corner. Single-storey, 5 bays
(internal). Chamfered plinth, large quoins. All windows with double-
chamfered surrounds to 3 round-headed lights with transom, plain
leaded glass. Continuous dripmould, cavetto-moulded oversailing course
beneath parapet with round-headed merlons which are grouped to form
central feature on side walls and rise in crow-steps at each gable.
West entrance front: low matching porch has C20 door in quoined surround
with moulded impost linked to hoodmould over 2-piece arched lintel.
Main gable has ashlar bellcote with moulded plinth and shaped gabled
head. North front: blocked doorway to left of centre preserves remains
of a cross-boarded door set within surround as west porch. To right
two 3-light windows, to left a matching window reset in return wall of
C20 addition. South front: a 3-light window to nave and to chancel, to
left a blocked matching doorway. East window set beneath heraldic
emblem of helm and mantling in recessed panel.
Interior: exposed roof has 5 C17 king-post trusses with raking struts
and braces to ridge. 2 rows of Cl7 box pews with carved upper panels
and acorn knob finials. Carved, octagonal C17 pulpit with sounding
board. Perimeter wall to west end of churchyard: approximately 30 metre
length of stone wall adjoining west porch; triangular coping built-up
in 2 courses, included for group value.
Passed out of non-conformist use in C19 to become chapel of ease to
Darfield church.
N. Pevsner, B.O.E., plate 16A, (photo taken before C20 addition).
C. Stell, 'Great Houghton Chapel', Archaeological Journal, vol 137,
1980, p400.

Listing NGR: SE4304106536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Houghton at Wikipedia
• St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Houghton official website
• Wikidata Q7594859

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas