List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
List entry Number: 1232799
Location
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Buckinghamshire | Aylesbury Vale | District Authority | Thornton |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 13-Jul-1966
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 408201
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
SP 73 NE THORNTON
4/176 Church of St. Michael
13/7/66
GV I
Parish church. C14, N. aisle rebuilt and church restored 1850. Nave,
aisles, W. tower; chancel demolished 1780 when interior of church
refurnished. Coursed rubble stone, lead roofs. W. tower of three
stages with diagonal buttresses to lower stage, small cusped lancets
to second stage and 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber;
battlemented parapet, gargoyles, wrought iron weather vane in form of
key. W. side has three steps to hollow chamfered arched doorway
under label with worn carved head stops, 2-light Decorated window above.
Nave has parapet to S. wall with blind tracery ornament, no clerestory.
Aisles have crude battlements to E. and W. and three bays of 2-light
Decorated windows with ogee tracery. C19 3-light Decorated E. window
with reticulated tracery. Interor: Nave of four bays has double
chamfered arcade on octagonal piers with moulded caps. Flat plaster
ceiling with Gothick cornice, black and white marble paving. C14
chancel arch incorporated in E. wall. Fittings of c.1780 include box
pews in aisles and double-decker pulpit in E. bay of N. aisle.
W. gallery has pointed arched panels. Some C19 glass. Monuments:
recumbent alabaster effigies to John Barton and wife, mid C15. flanking
entry to nave. Re-assembled monument in centre of nave to Robert
Ingylton and three wives 1472: re-assembled stone tomb chest with
ogee niches and figures; fine brass of frour figures and 16 children
under elaborate canopy of four ogee arches with crockets and finials.
Brass to Jane Ingleton 1557 in E. bay of nave.
RCHM II pp 298-9
Listing NGR: SP7521236235
Selected Sources
- Book Reference - Title: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North - Date: 1913 - Volume: 2 - Page References: 298-9
National Grid Reference: SP 75210 36233
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