Description

SY 2289 BEER FORE STREET
28/55 (east side)

Church of St Michael
GV
II

Parish church. 1877 by Hayward of Exeter. Coursed stone with freestone dressings
and slate roofs. Large church in Early English/Decorated style.
Nave with four-light Decorated west window. Multifoil round clerestory windows.
Low north and south aisles with Decorated three-light windows. Chancel with
Decorated five-light east window. North and south transepts. Tower at north-west
corner in four stages, top stage with twin lancet bell openings with colonettes,
embattled parapet and polygonal corner turret. Originally had a large stone spire
with lucarnes. Vestibule across west end with three bay Early English arcade.
Interior: Four bay north and south arcade with marble piers and foliated capitals.
Chancel arch has marble shafts. Nave roof with arched braces to collars and wind
braces. Contemporary furnishings including choir stalls and stone pulpit and font.

Listing NGR: SY2295189368

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26593209

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback