Church of St. Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St. Michael
- WRENN ID
- worn-doorway-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Michael is a parish church with a tower and chancel dating back to the 13th century and a nave from the 14th century. The chancel was restored in 1787, with major renovations undertaken in 1885-86 and further work in 1973-79. The church is constructed from flint and chert with ashlar dressings of Lincolnshire Limestone, with a thatched nave and a leaded chancel roof.
The west tower is a three-stage unbuttressed structure of two external stages, featuring ashlar quoins. It has a two-light cusped west window with rounded lights, and quatrefoil ringing chamber ventilation lights to the north, south, and west, situated below a string course. Louvred belfry windows are set within reduced brick openings with triangular heads, and the tower is topped with a flushwork crenellated parapet, punctuated by four gargoyles. Diagonal buttresses are present at the west end of the nave. A gabled, thatched south porch dates from the 1970s and features a wave and hollow chamfered inner south doorway. The nave has two flat, stepped buttresses on both the north and south sides, alongside two two-light cusped Y tracery south windows with exterior mouldings and two two-light Perpendicular north windows. A blocked north door is surmounted by a 20th-century circular flint outbuilding. The remains of brick jambs of a window are found west of this, and towards the eastern nave gable, there is one trefoiled lancet on each north and south side. The south side also exhibits a pierced arched priests' door and a two-light 13th-century plate tracery window with pointed lights supporting an encircled quatrefoil vesica. Diagonal east buttresses support a three-light 19th-century Perpendicular window.
Inside, a hollow chamfered tower arch provides access to the nave. The nave roof was restored in 1885-86, featuring moulded principals on hollow chamfered arched braces dropping into wall posts, a roll moulded wall plate below two tiers of crenellations, one tier of moulded butt purlins, and a ridge piece. A wave moulded 19th-century chancel arch has polygonal responds, bases, and capitals, with three orders of wave mouldings. The chancel roof is scissor braced, with origins in the 13th century, but restored to match the 1885-86 date. A chamfered arched piscina is present, alongside a plain 13th-century octagonal font with a central shaft and eight orbiting Purbeck marble columns, which has been restored. The three chancel windows contain stained glass by Hanry Holiday, dating from 1898 (south), 1911-13 (north), and 1919-20 (east).
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