Church Of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. A Medieval Church.

Church Of St Michael

WRENN ID
waning-slate-tide
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St Michael is an Anglican parish church with Norman origins, incorporating work from the 14th century, a substantial rebuild in the 15th century, and a restoration in 1872 which included a rebuilt chancel and an added organ chamber. The church is constructed of coursed rubble and ashlar stone, with lead sheeting roofs and coped verge details. It is primarily of Perpendicular style, comprising a nave, chancel, north aisle, north organ chamber, south porch, and a west tower.

The embattled three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, and two-light bell chamber windows with Somerset tracery and stone grilles. It is topped by an embattled stair turret, a clock, a west window, and a west door. The nave is also embattled with three bays, featuring niches, gargoyles, pinnacles, and two-light windows; two have square heads, and one is pointed. The south porch has a parapet, coping, diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, a shafted outer door opening, and a benched interior with a flagstone floor and a 19th-century roof supported by corbels carved as heads. The north aisle is similarly embattled, with buttresses, pinnacles, and three-light pointed-head windows, as well as a doorway. The chancel is three bays wide, with reset Decorated and Perpendicular windows, including a three-light east window. The organ chamber has a pierced parapet in Perpendicular style.

The interior has plastered walls and a flagstone floor. The roofs are from the 1872 restoration, with carvings of angels as corbels in the nave and aisle. A three-bay arcade separates the nave and aisle, featuring piers of four-hollow section. There are chamfered chancel and tower arches, potentially dating back before the 15th century. The arches in the organ chamber are from 1872. Norman dragon heads have been reset in the chancel above a south window. A stone pulpit dated 1621 features rosettes, fleur-de-lis, and symbols of the Trinity. The octagonal font has a quatrefoil on each face. A piscina is also in Perpendicular style. Later 19th-century furnishings include pews, choir stalls, altar rails, an organ, a reredos, and a screen. Iron candelabrae are also present. Five late 18th- to early 19th-century monuments are located under the tower, along with an elaborate mid-19th-century monument over the north door. A window south of the nave incorporates reset medieval glass fragments, and eight later 19th-century stained glass windows are also present.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Church View Grade II 50 m
  2. Dinder House Grade II 57 m
  3. Downside Road View Grade II 79 m
  4. Wistaria House Grade II 82 m
  5. Gate Piers Quadrant Walls and Flanking Piers to Dinder House Grade II 91 m
  6. Middle Farmhouse Grade II 169 m
  7. River Cottage Grade II 186 m
  8. 1 2 3, Riverside Grade II 196 m
  9. Bridge Over River Sheppey in Grounds of Dinder House Grade II* 259 m
  10. Higher Farmhouse Grade II 269 m