Description

SK 16 NE,
6/163

PARISH OF SHELDON,
MAIN STREET (off north side),
Church of St Michael and All Angels

II

Church. c1865 (consecrated 7 October 1864). Coursed, rock-faced limestone rubble with gritstone dressings
and quoins. High, steeply pitched, slate roof, continuing in curve around apsidal
east end, Stone coped gable to west with ridge bellcote. Single-cell building
with round east end, and south porch. West elevation - tall lancet windows either
side of central stepped buttress. Above, trefoil window and bellcote. Three lancet
windows to north and south walls. Three similar windows round apse. South porch
to west, with moulded copings and cross to ridge. Trefoil windows to sides. Pointed,
chamfered doorcase. Plank door. INTERIOR very simple, lancet windows to sides and
round apse. Plain wooden pews. Impressive scissor-truss roof with radiating timbers
around east end.

Listing NGR: SK1756368884

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Michael and All Angels' Church, Sheldon at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26619519

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)