Church Of St Michael And All Angels

SP 70 SE LONGWICK-CUM-ILMER HORSENDEN

4/93 Church of St. Michael and All Angels

21.6.55.

GV II*

Parish church. C15 chancel, restored and extended to E. C19. Nave demolished and replaced by small W. tower 1765. Tower is of semi- dressed stone with flint galleting; chancel flint with stone dressings. Lead roofs. Tower is of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, arched openings to bell-chamber and 2-light traceried window over it, door. All tower openings have Tudor hoodmoulds. Chancel has diagonal buttresses, chamfered plinth and moulded parapet, each side with a central carved gargoyle, reworked C19. 2 bays of 3-light Perpendicular windows, those to S. restored c.1980 in plastic stone. Similar E. window completely restored C19. Interior: small arch to tower; blocked squint to S.; piscina with hollow-chamfered arch; C19 sedilia and roof. Fittings: early C16 screen, restored,with cusped open panels, the spandrels carved with rosettes and lion-heads, now set against W. wall; C19 reredos, octagonal font and stained glass; some reset medieval floor tiles. Monuments: Marble wall tablets to Bashewell Grubb 1666, John Grubb 1700 and Anne Grubb, a Huguenot exile, 1721.

RCHM I p.205-6

Listing NGR: SP7935602919