Listed Building record MDO13190 - Roman Catholic Church of St Michael and St George, Silver Street, Lyme Regis

An early nineteenth-century church built in Gothic style with a date stone laid in 1835. The walls of the building are covered in render with Ham Stone dressings.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 545182 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

‘Roman Catholic church built in 1835. Plan of nave, chancel, and presbytery.’

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 144 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(3) Church Of St. Michael And St. George, Roman Catholic, stands on the S.W. side of Silver Street 600 yards W. by N. of the parish church. The walls are of stone faced with stucco with Ham Hill stone dressings. It was built in 1835–7 in 13th-century Gothic style and the Lady chapel was added in 1851; the tower and spire were rebuilt in 1937. The Chancel has buttresses at the angles terminating in octagonal pinnacles above eaves-level and an E. window of three graduated lancet-lights. It is of one shallow bay with quadripartite vault with moulded ribs springing from corbel-shafts, and is divided from the nave by a two-centred chancel-arch. The Nave is in three bays with a two-centred arched opening in the E. bay of the N. wall giving access to the Lady chapel; the vaulting is similar to that in the chancel. The windows in the N. and S. walls are of one lancet-light; the W. window is of three graduated lancets. There are buttresses and pinnacles at the W. end, and a W. Porch. …'

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