Description

SOLLERS HOPE CP -
SO 63 SW
2/55 Church of St Michael
25.2.66
GV II*
Parish church. C14, C19 restoration with addition of north vestry and
bell turret in 1887. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, C20 tiled
roof, C19 timber-framed bell turret with shingle cladding to squat spire.
Nave with bell turret and south porch, chancel and north vestry. Nave:
two trefoil-headed lights with tracery and hoodmould to right of gabled
south porch, outer archway with responds, outer moulded order, inner
chamfered. Chancel: two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil to window
to right of blocked chancel doorway. Interior: RCHM mentions C14 date for
chancel and nave roofs; moulded and embattled wall-plates, trussed rafter
roofs. Chancel arch: two chamfered orders, 2-centred arched head. Fittings:
font: plain cylindrical bowl on C20 base, possibly C13. Monuments: coffin
lid, possibly C13, in chancel, tapering slab with decorative cross in roundel
and male figure in military dress. Three other coffin lids in west wall of
nave, C13 and C14. (RCHM Vol II, p 169).

Listing NGR: SO6124933118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539714

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)