Description

SP 70 SE LONGWICK-CUM-ILMER HORSENDEN

4/93 Church of St. Michael
and All Angels

21.6.55.

GV II*

Parish church. C15 chancel, restored and extended to E. C19. Nave
demolished and replaced by small W. tower 1765. Tower is of semi-
dressed stone with flint galleting; chancel flint with stone dressings.
Lead roofs. Tower is of 2 stages with battlemented parapet, arched
openings to bell-chamber and 2-light traceried window over it, door.
All tower openings have Tudor hoodmoulds. Chancel has diagonal
buttresses, chamfered plinth and moulded parapet, each side with a
central carved gargoyle, reworked C19. 2 bays of 3-light Perpendicular
windows, those to S. restored c.1980 in plastic stone. Similar E.
window completely restored C19. Interior: small arch to tower;
blocked squint to S.; piscina with hollow-chamfered arch; C19 sedilia
and roof. Fittings: early C16 screen, restored,with cusped open
panels, the spandrels carved with rosettes and lion-heads, now set
against W. wall; C19 reredos, octagonal font and stained glass; some
reset medieval floor tiles. Monuments: Marble wall tablets to
Bashewell Grubb 1666, John Grubb 1700 and Anne Grubb, a Huguenot exile,
1721.

RCHM I p.205-6

Listing NGR: SP7935602919

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541534

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