Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089174
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089174
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Winson
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 09070 08642
Details
WINSON WINSON VILLAGE SP 0808-0908 9/256 Church of St Michael 26.1.61 GV II* Former chapel to Bibury parish, now parish church. C12; C13 and C14 alterations; c1882 restoration. Random rubble limestone; stone slate roof. Nave with south porch chancel. Round arched C12 south doorway with billetted hoodmould, plain tympanum, imposts and jamb shafts with scalloped capitals. C14 parapet gabled porch with-chamfered inner order of arch on corbels; internal niche on east side with ogee cusped head. Nave lancet to left; 2-light square-headed Perpendicular window to right with ogee tracery and hoodmould. Blocked north doorway as to south. C14 pointed 2- light to left and Norman pilaster buttress. Two-light Perpendicular west window in largely C19 restored west end having C19 bellcote. Single east lancet to chancel is Early English as are lancets to north and south; one enlarged chancel window with cinquefoil on south side. Evidence of raising of chancel roof. Interior: limewashed nave with C19 wagon roof. C12 chancel arch with billetted hoodmould and jamb shafts with scalloped capitals matches doorways. Late C19 painted diaper decoration to chancel walls with vine and honeysuckle. South lancet has low sill forming sedile. Sedile with shouldered arched top on north side. Octagonal stone pulpit may be C15, but extensively restored and scraped. Circular Norman bowl font on C19 base. Marble memorial on north chancel wall to JOHN HOWES, died 1806, by J. MILLS of Cirencester. Stained glass: east window by Hardman. South nave lancet by Thomas Willement, c1850. (A.R.J. Jurica, 'Bibury' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp. 21-24; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SP0907008642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127504
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1981), 21-24
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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