The Church of St Michael and All Angels, With Its Boundary Wall and Gate Piers
THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, WITH ITS BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, ST. MICHAEL'S AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056486
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Church of St Michael and All Angels, With Its Boundary Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, WITH ITS BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, ST. MICHAEL'S AVENUE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/00107/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056486
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Church of St Michael and All Angels, With Its Boundary Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, WITH ITS BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, ST. MICHAEL'S AVENUE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, WITH ITS BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE PIERS, ST. MICHAEL'S AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yeovil
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5654016645
Details
ST51NE
2/96
YEOVIL CP
ST MICHAEL'S AVENUE (East side)
The Church of St Michael and all Angels, with its boundary wall and gate piers
- II
Church, opened 1897. J. Nicholson Johnson of Yeovil, architect. Ham stone,
squared random coursed, with ashlar dressings: Welsh slated roof with red
ornamental clay tile ridges. The whole in a careful early C15 style, with
touches of Art Nouveau. Short Chancel, 5-bay nave and North aisle, 3-bay Lady
Chapel on South side, with short South aisle and tower at the West end of the
South aisle: vestry projecting from end of North aisle: main entrance through
South tower doorway. The tower of 4-stages, the 2 lowest visible only from South
and West: West face plain at first stage; to the South pointed arched doorway
with moulded chamfers (no imposts) with floriated design in spandrels and
rectangular carved panel above with vine ornamentation, the whole flanked by
angled shafts culminating in turretted pinnacles. At second stage two small
cusped arched windows set high; in addition on the West face a large three light
C15 pattern window: the third stage has glazed C15 tracery windows to all faces,
and the fourth stage similar windows with pierced stone panels. The tower has
offset corner buttresses, double plinth and string courses, with crenellation to
the top: a stair turret on the South-west corner with slit windows, arched
arcaded blind panels to the parapet, has a flagmost at its top. The North
elevation is cleanly divided into bays to the North aisle by offset buttresses
between which are pointed arched mullioned windows with C15 pattern tracery:
there is a double plinth and string course over which there is crenellation -
there is no clerestorey to the nave - the roof is continuous over nave and
aisle. The Chancel window matches: the vestry projects a total of 2-bays. The
West elevation is simple, with pointed arch doorway flanked by shafts with
pinnacles to the North Aisle, and a West window of the same character as all
other windows: over it a panel of 7-blind lancets at the crown of the gable,
surmounted by a pierced stone cross. The South elevation follows the general
character - the Lady Chapel projects slightly more, and is taller than, the
South aisle: the Chancel is not crenellated, and at the East end there is a
plain gable coping with block and cross finial . The interior not seen - the
church is normally kept locked during the week (January 1983). Boundary walls of
local stone rubble random coursed with rough crenellated top averaging 1 to 1.5
metres high: 2-pairs gate piers with occasional boasted stones and moulded
facetted caps.
Listing NGR: ST5654016645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261434
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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