Description

SE51SW HAMPOLE STRAIGHT LANE (north end), Skelbrooke

2/54 Church of St. Michael and 5.6.58 All Angels

GV II

Church. Medieval but extensively rebuilt by Joseph Goddard following a major fire in 1872. Rubble limestone, red tile roofs. West tower, 3-bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with separate north chapel and door in gabled projection to south. Tower: chamfered plinth, large quoins. C19 west door with shouldered lintel, 3-light window above has Decorated-style tracery and hoodmould with head-stops. Offset beneath C19, pointed, 2-light belfry openings. Band with carved bosses beneath embattled parapet with renewed pinnacles. Nave: chamfered plinth. Gabled south porch has hooded arch and old carving of angel with shield; single-light window on left, two C19 2-light windows on right have Decorated-style tracery. Buttress projection on right houses stair turret. North nave windows as south, buttresses between. Gable copings with cylindrical stack to north, gable cross. Chancel: C19 lancets to south have foiled heads. 3-light east window with geometrical tracery. 4 quatrefoil windows to north chapel. Gable crosses.

Interior: nave has segmentally-pointed tower arch. Truncated stone newel stair built into south buttress projection. C19 chancel arch with trefoil shafts to moulded arch, C14 piscina. C15, double-chamfered arcade into chancel chapel has broach-stopped base to octagonal pier. C19 roofs. Stained glass west window of 1885; window to north of nave by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.

Listing NGR: SE5111812088

External Links

• Church of St Michael and All Angels at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26601210

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)