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Latitude: 54.8424 / 54°50'32"N
Longitude: -1.4693 / 1°28'9"W
OS Eastings: 434181
OS Northings: 549857
OS Grid: NZ341498
Mapcode National: GBR LD5F.PY
Mapcode Global: WHD5J.DKL3
Plus Code: 9C6WRGRJ+W7
Entry Name: Church of St Michael and All Angels
Listing Date: 26 April 1950
Last Amended: 15 July 1985
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1184780
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303174
Also known as: St Michael and All Angels' Church
ID on this website: 101184780
Location: St Michael's Church, Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, DH4
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Houghton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Houghton-le-Spring
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Houghton-le-Spring
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Church building
NZ34NW HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING BROADWAY (east side)
7/18 Church of St. Michael
26.4.50 and All Angels
(formerly listed as
G.V. St Michael's Church)
I
Parish church. Late C12 and C13 chancel; C14 nave arcades and west wall;
C15 and C19 vestries; C19 aisles, porch, upper-stage of tower. Alterations
to tower probably by Hardwick. Sandstone; roof of Westmorland slate. 4-bay
nave, north and south aisles and south porch; 2-bay transepts; chancel with
south vestry and a second south-east vestry of 2 storeys. Buttresses diagonal
to chancel and tower, angle to transepts and nave. Pinnacled tower of 2
stages; crenellations to vestry; steep-pitched roofs have overlapping stone
coping to nave gable, flat to chancel and transepts. Interior : 4-bay nave
arcades have double-chamfered arches and 8-shaft columns with fillets. 6-bay
chancel has small round-headed door in north wall with tympanum, 8 lancet
windows on south. Octagonal font. Monuments in south transept: chest tomb
of Bernard Gilpin, died 1583, with strapwork decoration and arms; brass to
Margery Bellasis - her children, kneeling - died 1587; wall tomb with C13
effigy of knight; and another effigy of a knight. Grave slabs in floor
have arms of Ralph Carr of Cocken Hill died 1709; of Nicholas Conyers High
Sheriff of Durham died 1686. Source: Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, series 3, volume V, 45-62
Listing NGR: NZ3418649853
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