Church of St Michael Archangel Highclere, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Michael Archangel 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1339760
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 16 May 1966
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL ARCHANGEL
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL ARCHANGEL
- Parish
- Highclere
- District
- Basingstoke and Deane
- County
- Hampshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 44017 60298
- Easting
- 444016.7750
- Northing
- 160298.2588
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SU 46 SW HIGHCLERE 1/6 16.5.66 Church of St Michael Archangel (formerly listed as Church of St Michael and All Angels
II*
1870, by George Gilbert Scott, RA. Built to replace the earlier church of 1692, itself on the medieval site next to Highclere Castle. Chancel of 2 bays, nave of 3 bays with a south aisle, (later) porch on the north side, and tower north of the chancel; the style is Early English with plate tracery. Steep tile roofing, with scalloped bands above the chancel. Walling of flint with stone dressings; stepped coupled buttresses at the corners, plain eaves, cill band to chancel and west wall, generally coupled lancet windows, some with quatrefoils, some with hoodmoulds. The east gable has a wheel window above an elaborate blind arcade, the west gable has a circular opening above 2 tall lancets. The tower has a shingled broach spire, a bell stage of triple lancets, with coupled stepped buttresses below this level, at each corner. The interior is plain, with pointed and moulded arches, Early English caps to the 2 octagonal columns, and detached columns to the arcaded interiors of the chancel windows. There are several monuments from the old church; an elaborate Jacobean Tomb (of Richard Kingsmill) with a recumbent effigy, kneelers, and lettered panels enclosed in a Corinthian Order. In the chancel, the monument of Robert Sawyer (1692) has a classical framework of black and mottled white marble, with Corinthian pilasters, swags enclosing a pedestal, a sarcophagus base, with floral ornament and an urn at the top. A wall monument to the Bishop of Waterford (1773) has a figure by Roubiliac. There are 2 oval wall plaques to William (1799) and Mary (1783) Coleman, and other classical wall monuments (2 of 1720, one of 1740, 1915 and 1933).
