Description

LANGLEY WITH HARDLEY STONE LANE
TG 30 SE
3/55 Church of St. Michael,
5.9.60 Langley

GV I

Parish church C14 and C15 with C19 remodelling of east end. Flint with
limestone dressings; slate roofs. West tower, nave, chancel, north porch,
south vestry. C14 west tower with diagonal western buttresses up to bell-
stage level. 2-light bell openings with cusped Y-tracery. 3-light C15 west
window. Embattled parapet with plain corner pinnacles. Line of earlier,
steeper nave roof pitch on east face of tower. C19 vestry on south side:
coped gable parapet on moulded kneelers, circular gable window with leaded
glazing. Lean-to on east side. Nave windows early C19 of 3 lights set in
red brick surrounds windows with eliptical arched heads. Staged buttresses
divide the bays. In the south wall, a blocked opening between the two nave
windows. South chancel wall has a blocked south-west window with a blocked
square-headed low-side window. C14 priests door with scratch dial above,
bearing an indistinct date mark, possibly 1595. 2-light south east window
with cusped Y-tracery. Angle buttresses to east gable wall; the gable much
rebuilt with an apex of red brick. 2-light C19 east window with Y-tracery
and semicircular head. Window set in raised red brick surround with rubbed
arch and raised key and imposts. Two north chancel windows 2-light with
cusped Y-tracery, priests doorway between blocked in red brick. Upper part
of nave north wall rebuilt in red brick. North porch with rendered gable
and small east and west windows, the west window square-headed. North
doorway C14 with dogtooth hoodmould. C15 nave roof with arch-braced
principals on wallposts with shields; roll-moulded ridges and purlins-bosses
at intersections of ridge and principals. Fragments of traceried wall paint-
ing between wallposts on south wall. Rectangular recess in south nave wall
with C14 hood mould on head stops and inset iron grills. C14 tower arch
with polygonal capitals and half-shafts. Chancel remodelled in C19: cored
and plastered ceiling. C19 stone dado with pilaster-buttresses. Triple
ogee-headed niches flanking altar. Good C18 and C19 wall monuments to
Beauchamp Proctor family. C15 font, octagonal, with quatrefoil panels in
bowl, arcaded stem on octagonal base. Much collected foreign glass included
four C16 panels in the east window, said to have been brought from Rouen
Cathedral in 1787 by Lady Beauchamp Proctor.

Listing NGR: TG3550500931

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537729

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)