Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342776
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342776
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, THE STREET
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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 ALL ANGELS, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Booton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 12298 22386
Details
TG 12 SW BOOTON THE STREET (south side) 4/9 Church of St Michael 10.5.61 and All Angels. (formerly listed as Church of St Michael)
GV II*
Parish church entirely rebuilt in late C19 by the Reverend Whitwell Elwin, rector of Booton c.1850-1900. Flint with limestone dressings and detail, steeply pitched plain tiled roofs. Twin diagonally-set west towers, nave, chancel, north porch, south vestry, all in an eccentric French Gothic style. Window tracery generally geometric; bays divided by staged buttresses with crocketted pinnacles. Gables parapetted and coped and surmounted by elaborate crocketted pinnacles, that on the west gable in three tiers with blank arcading. West towers with elongated blank arcading in their lower stages surmounted by pierced frieze and crocketted corner pinnacles. Tall sound openings with ogival heads. Moulded strings and eaves in limestone; pierced stone eaves parapet on chancel. Set-back buttresses at corners of nave and chancel. Priest's door in south wall of chancel With arch of five orders and ogival crocketted hood surmounted by square label with quatrefoiled spandrels. Doorway surmounted by elaborately-carved niche on clustered shafts. Fine west doorway and window between towers. In the north porch, set in the east wall, a fine C14 Virgin and Child (headless) discovered during Elwin's rebuilding works. Interior: spherical triangular opening above chancel arch. False hammer-beam roof over chancel with arch- braces on wall-shafts. Angel hammer-beam roof over nave with wall-posts on corbels with stiff-leaf carving. Linenfold dado panelling around nave walls. Good C19 glass in nave and chancel. Good C19 pulpit and fittings.
Listing NGR: TG1229822386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219913
- 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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