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Summary

Small church built in arts and crafts style in 1888-9.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1098547: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

Other References/Statuses

• Church of England HER: 4951
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY29SW/197
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 87907

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHURCH (Built, XIX - 1888 AD to 1889 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV115886.

Doe/hhr:62:part of east devon(19/10/1984)73.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV329610.

Church of st. Michael, swan hill road. Built 1888/9. Small church in arts and crafts style. Stone rubble with freestone dressings and tiled roof (doe).

Fisher, J., 1999, East Devon Conservation Area Appraisals: Colyford, 3, 6 (Report - non-specific). SDV346508.

St Michael's Church was built 1888-89 by R.M.Fulford and was originally intended as a private chapel. The exterior is brick and flint, and the nave and chancel are faced with buff and red brick. The reredos is dated 1891. Other details: Maps, phototgraph.

English Heritage, 2011, Historic Houses Register (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV346128.

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.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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