Church Of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Michael
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, with the south wall of the nave and porch rendered. The roofs are covered with slate and plain tiles. The church features a west tower, a nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a chancel that has a modern brick vestry to the north.
The west tower is built in the Perpendicular style and has diagonal buttresses with chequer flushwork. It includes a traceried west window with two lights, mouchettes, and a transom, as well as a single cusped lancet window at the first floor. The tower has two-light bell-openings with daggers between the super-mullions and a crenellated parapet with flushwork and crocketted corner pinnacles. The nave has two restored two-light Perpendicular windows and two 15th-century two-light windows in the north aisle, also featuring daggers between the super-mullions.
The chancel contains two two-light Y-traceried windows, a priest's door with a hood mould and carved label stops, and one low lancet window on the south side. The east window is a three-light Y-traceried window that is partially blocked, with a hood-mould and carved label stops. There is a single lancet window to the north, a dripstone, and a wall-plate bracket from the former vestry. A rood stair projection is located in the angle between the north aisle and chancel.
Inside, there is a 15th-century tower arch without responds, and a 19th-century chancel arch in the Early English style featuring dogtooth decoration, marble shafts, and stiff leaf capitals. The church has a triple sedilia with a piscina in a similar style. The north arcade, dating from the 13th century, has three bays with quatrefoil piers, bell capitals, and plain chamfered arches of two orders. The roofs of the chancel, nave, and north aisle are restored 15th-century arch-braced roofs with moulded wall plates, butt purlins, and ridge purlins. The church also features a 15th-century octagonal font with carved figures on the stem, which has re-cut heads and a restored bowl. There is a 19th-century western gallery and chancel screen.
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