Description

SY 29 NE SHUTE HADDON ROAD 10/473 8.5.67 Church of St Michael

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Parish Church. Originally C13 cruciform plan with central tower nave, chancel and north and south transepts. Transepts enlarged in C13. North east chapel and south porch. North aisle added in 1811. Stone rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs. All C19 Perpendicular style windows on south side with flat heads. Central crossing tower, unbuttressed, and with battlements and gargoyles and two-light Perpendicular bell-openings.

Interior: crossing tower on circa C14 piers and arches. Three bay north arcade of 1811. Two-bay arcade to north east chapel with four-centred arches and containing fine monument of circa 1741, a statue of William Pole in costume of Master of the Household to Queen Anne, by Sir Henry Cheere, and standing on pedestal. Other early C19 monuments by Rouw of London.

Much restored C15 font with quatrefoil panels. Armorial glass in north aisle dated 1673 and 1808. C19 wagon roofs and C19 furnishings.

Churchyard immediately south west of church a tomb chest dated 1665.

Listing NGR: SY2527897448

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings