CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299195
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sep-1955
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blaisdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 70293 17218
Details
SO 71 NW BLAISDON BLAISDON VILLAGE
7/3 Church of St. Michael and All
Angels
23.9.55
II
Church, C15 tower, rest rebuilt 1867-9; by F.R. Kempson of Hereford
for H. Crawshay. Tower thin coursed rubble, church squared red
Forest stone with cream ashlar dressings: slate roof. West tower
4-bay nave, with north aisle, chancel with vestry, south porch.
Tower of two stages, with diagonal corner buttresses, 2-light
belfry window with stone louvres, no hood mould: below a single-
light square-headed window. Battlemented parapet with short spire
above. Gabled porch, door with two-centred pointed head, possibly
later wrought-iron gates: above a circular window. Nave has
plinth, moulded string course at window-sill level, and stone
corbels to eaves gutter. Lancet window to west of porch, two 2-
light plate-tracery windows to east, all with hoodmoulds. Gable
has copings and apex cross, with square-set buttress below.
Chancel similar to nave, but with central door, at top of steps,
and one lancet each side. East wall has three grouped lancets.
Internally nave arcade has monolithic columns, carved leaf
capitals. Roofs open. In chancel an aumbry from earlier church on
north, with cinque-foiled ogee head, piscina in south window sill.
Octagonal stone font on columnar base dates from rebuilding. C16
linen-fold panelled pew ends reused in north aisle. Sundry late
C18, early C19 monuments in tower base, also painted board
recording fire burning down village in 1699.
Listing NGR: SO7029317218
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354071
- 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.
End of official listing
