Church of St Michael and Attached Railings
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282109
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282109
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ST MICHAELS HILL
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 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, ST MICHAELS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58516 73301
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE ST MICHAEL'S HILL 901-1/11/279 (West side) 08/01/59 Church of St Michael and attached railings
GV II*
Church. Mid C15 tower, church rebuilt 1775-77 by Thomas Paty. Coursed, squared Pennant rubble crypt, Pennant rubble with limestone dressings to the rest. Aisled nave, chancel, N and S porches and W tower. Perpendicular Gothic tower, Georgian Gothic Revival-style church. 3-light E window with intersecting tracery, and similar 2-light windows to the aisles, and a 2-light ogee-headed S chancel window; cornice to N and S of chancel, gabled aisles and nave. Cross arrow slits in the crypt; 5-bay N aisle has 2-light windows with intersecting tracery, and a cornice with small panels above and below between the windows; the W porch has a depressed ogee-arched doorway with an ogee hood and 2-leaf door with pointed panels; the NW vestry has depressed ogee-arched windows with 6/6-pane sashes and interlacing to the N and W. S aisle as the N, the porch having steps with curtail ends. The 4-stage tower has diagonal buttresses and a SE stair turret with a Tudor-arched door at the bottom; 4-centred arched W door with quatrefoils to the spandrels below a 3-light Perpendicular window with head stops; second and third stages have 2-light windows, blind to the quatrefoil heads, and dated 1811 on the S side; a belfry clock in a round moulding below 2-light windows with openwork, 2 gargoyles to the cornice, a crenellated parapet and pinnacles, with a crenellated spirelet to the stair turret. INTERIOR: Late C19 reredos of 4 arches and a central bay and low, pointed niches in the sides of the chancel; the pointed chancel arch has sunken panels in the soffit. 5-bay nave arcade of columns on tall pedestals with fluted capitals to a plain waggon roof and panelled beams to pilasters dividing the flat-ceilinged aisles; late C19 gallery at the W end. FITTINGS: C17 sword rest; C19 round stone pulpit with brackets to the bottom; octagonal font of 1886 with marble shafts, which replaced an urn with a marble basin by Thomas Paty of 1775; brass lectern with angels 1887. Memorials include a wall monument to Joseph Percivall d.1764, a sarcophagus on scrolled feet, bearing a plinth with 3 classical figures holding a likeness on a shield; wall mounument to Mary Stretton d.1791, an ogee-sided plinth and obelisk with a figure leaning on an urn; marble tablet to James Drew d.1835, a Gothic-style panel with octagonal attached columns and a trefoil parapet. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached iron railings. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 175; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 404; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 70).
Listing NGR: ST5851673301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380470
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 404
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 175
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 70
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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