Listed Building record MDO14198 - Parish Church of Saint Michael and all Angels, Littlebredy

Parish Church. C13 chancel and C14 south tower. Church largely rebuilt in 1850 to designs of B. Ferrey, with A. Troyte-Acland overseeing the work.

Parish Church of St Michael and All Saints. C13th chancel and C14th South tower. Largely rebuilt 1850 to designs by B.Ferrey. Plan of nave, north aisle, south-east aisle, chancel, south vestry, south porch with tower and spire over. <1> <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 37 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(1) Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels stands near the middle of the parish. The walls are of local rubble with some flint and the dressings are of local stone; the roofs are covered with stone slates. The Chancel was built late in the 13th century. The South Tower was added in the 14th century. The church was largely rebuilt in 1850 to the designs of B. Ferrey when the chancel was drastically restored and partly rebuilt, the Nave extended to the W. and the North and South Aisles added and the spire added to the tower.
Architectural Description—The Chancel (18½ ft. by 14¾ ft.) has a modern E. window. In the N. wall are two partly restored 13th-century windows, each of one lancet-light. In the S. wall are two windows, the eastern similar to those in the N. wall and the western of the 14th century and of two trefoiled ogee lights with a quatrefoil in a two-centred head; the 13th or 14th-century doorway has chamfered jambs and two-centred head. The chancel-arch is modern.
The Vestry is modern, but reset in the E. wall is a window similar to the S.W. window of the chancel.
The Nave (62¼ ft. by 15 ft.) has no ancient features.
The South Tower (6¼ ft. square) is of the 14th century much restored and of three storeys. The ground-stage has a modern doorway in the N. wall. The archway in the S. wall has a segmental-pointed arch of two chamfered orders, the outer continuous and the inner dying on to the responds. The second storey has in the S. wall a window of one trefoiled ogee light. A similar window in the W. wall has been altered and is now covered by the modern stair-turret. The bell-chamber has, in each wall, a completely restored window; that on the N. has been converted into a doorway.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1963 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY58728901) St Michael and All Saints Church [NAT]

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 884103 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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