Church Of St Michael

HUMBERSIDE EAST YORKSHIRE 5268 SE 74 NE THORNTON MAIN STREET (south side)

5/61 Church of St Michael 26.1.67

• II*

Church. C12, enlarged in C14. West end rebuilt and bellcote added 1890-92 by Ewan Christian. Coursed squared rubble with some cobbles and brick: freestone dressings to openings. Timber-framed bellcote, slate roof. 3-bay nave with north aisle and west bellcote, 2-bay chancel. Nave: buttress with offsets. 2 square-headed 2-light windows with ogee tracery, and trefoil- headed lancet to extreme east, flanking pointed south door with continuous double hollow chamfers under hood-mould. Similar door to north wall under filleted hood-mould with face-stops. Chamfered corbel table. Bellcote: timber louvres and pyramidal roof under wind-vane. Chancel: 2 square-headed windows of 2 round-headed cusped lights each: over the mullions is a similar, inverted, cusped motif. Round-arched priests' door with continuous narrow chamfer. 3-light pointed east window with intersecting tracery, raised coped gable with cross finial. Interior: no arcade to north aisle. Early C19 organ case with inlaid wood. C19 octagonal font on cylindrical pier and octagonal base.

Listing NGR: SE7598445200