Church of St Michael Arthuret, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Michael has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1087523
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 1 April 1957
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
- Parish
- Arthuret
- District
- Carlisle
- County
- Cumbria
- Grid Reference
- NY 37939 67666
- Easting
- 337939.0000
- Northing
- 567666.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
NY 36 NE ARTHURET ARTHURET
22/1 Church of St Michael
1.4.57
G.V. II*
Church. Dated 1609 over west entrance, built by national subscription, replacing medieval church; tower completed c1700, restored 1868. Red and yellow dressed sandstone, graduated green slate roofs. 3-storey tower/porch, 7-bay nave with north and south aisles, one-bay chancel. Tower: plank door in pointed arch, 2-light mullioned openings with louvred vents; small, chamfered-surround stair windows to left; stepped angle buttresses, string courses, battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles; weather vane with cut lettering ST MICHAEL'S. Aisles have triple cross-mullioned windows; smaller mullioned clerestory windows above. Aisles and nave with battlemented parapets and finials, stepped buttresses between aisle windows. Chancel has no side windows; replacement east window of 1868 (original now as folly at Whoof House, Aglionby) has oval at the apex of the arch and inter- secting tracery, stained glass by Scott of Carlisle. Interior; 7-bay arcade of pointed arches; C17 bowl and stem font; C15 heart brass; heraldic hatchments on 3 wooden panels and marble wall plaques, all to members of the Graham family 1657- C20. Furnishing and fittings are early C20. See, Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, vol lxvi, pp. 179-189.
Listing NGR: NY3793967666
