Description

SE 26 NE MARKINGTON WITH WESTERNS LANE WALLERTHWAITE (west side)

5/69 Church of Saint Michael

GV II

Church of Saint Michael. 1844 by A H Cates for Mr Wilberforce, in early Gothic style, with restoration 1968. Gritstone, Westmorland slate roof. 5- bay nave with bell-cote at west end and south porch, bay 2. Lower-roofed 2- bay chancel with vestry on north side. Porch has pointed arch with hood- mould surmounted by statue of Saint Michael in a niche. Board door with strap hinges. Trefoil-headed lancet windows to nave and chancel. Stepped diagonal buttresses, ashlar copings with crosses to gable finials. Interior: fine roof structure : raised crucks on corbels in nave, and a type of waggon roof with scissor braces to chancel. The 3-light east window was designed by William Wailes and the west window is a memorial to John Stanley Tute, the first vicar, who died in 1897. The bellcote and west end of the nave roof were damaged by gales in 1962 and rebuilt by 1968. The vestry was destroyed by fire in 1973 when the Sanctuary roof was also damaged. The church was rededicated in 1974.

Listing NGR: SE2863265081

External Links

• Church of Saint Michael at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26442713

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)