Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (3.18.1)

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Grade II*
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 242656
Date assigned 16 January 1967
Date last amended

Description

Parish Church, disused. C12, C14, C15, reduced in size, probably in C18, partly rebuilt c.1832, turret erected 1890. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with stone coped gables, that to the east being moulded either side of the ridge end at the base. The turret has an ashlar end lead base with timber supporting the roof end damaged weather vane. Nave end chancel under single roof, west turret with pyramidal roof, south porch. The church is set on a shallow plinth and is buttressed. The west wall has a 2-light window with cusping and triangular head. To the north of the south buttress is a small ashlar, brick and tile lean-to with wooden door. To the west of the north well are two 3-light windows with cusping, triangular heads and hood mould over. The east well has an arched 3 light window with reticulated tracery, having a centre circle under the apex which contains 3 trefoils. There is a hood mould with gauged coursed rubble over. The south wall has four arched windows. The eastern most one has 3 lights with flowing tracery and a hood mould. The off-centre east window has 4 lights with panel tracery, cusping and hood mould. The off-centre west has 3 lights with flowing tracery, quatrefoils and hood mould. The western most window has 3 lights with cusping and is under a triangular arch with hood mould. The ashlar, coursed rubble and pantile porch has a stone parapet hiding the roof line. Over the entrance arch is a stone dated 1830. The interior porch doorway has a chamfered arch with hood mould over. The interior has to the east of the door a C14 piscina with cusped arch and crocketed hood mould with single remaining label stop to the east and carved head as a finial. The west wall has a single corbel flanked by single larger corbels. Above is a small triangular headed opening. There is a C14 octagonal font. To the south wall are 2 C14 monuments, both partly hidden by the wall and raised floor. That to the east is decorated along its sides with lozenges containing shields and has a single column at each corner supporting the top. The second monument has quatrefoils and shields decorating the sides. There is an C18 kingpost roof, with some remains of C18 panelling to the wall. (NCC/js)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SK 79423 47617 (24m by 13m)
Map sheet SK74NE
District Newark
Civil Parish Cotham, Newark

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Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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