Description

SY 29 SW COLYTON SWAN HILL ROAD
13/152 COLYFORD

Church of St Michael

II

Church. Built 1888/9. Small church in Arts and Crafts style. Stone rubble with
freestone dressings and tiled roof. Comprising: nave and chancel in one, south
transept, south-west porch and north vestry. Bellcote over west gable with
corbelled buttresses with pinnacles, short tented gablets and small spirelet.
Stringcourse below window cill level on battered plinth. Lancets and grouped
lancets. Battered buttresses with set offs. Buttress at centre of west end with
gablet between lancets, above which is small oval window in the gable. Lean-to
vestibule across west end with gabled porch to south.
Interior: red and yellow brick with stone dressings. Timber vaulted roof with
arched braces on stone corbels. Three bay arcade to vestibule at west end and two
bay arcade to south transept. Squint with cusped arches. Complete furnishings
including timber chancel screen, carved wooden reredos with relief based on
Bartolommeos "The Entombment", pulpit, benches and font.
St Michael's is a chapel of ease built by Mrs Scarbrough in memory of her father
Admiral Impey.

Listing NGR: SY2486592449

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Michael at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26390728

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas