Church of St Michael, Stanton Harcourt

Heritage listing

Details SP 4105, 21/296 STANTON HARCOURT Church of St Michael 12/09/55 GV I Church. Mid C12; transepts added and chancel enlarged in mid C13 and late C13; C15 bell-stage to tower; Harcourt Chapel probably by William Orchard, c1470; transepts remodelled in C15. Coursed limestone rubble; rendered chancel, nave and lower stage of tower; Harcourt Chapel of ashlar. Gabled stone slate roof. Cruciform plan, with tower over crossing. Chancel: east gable has offset corner buttresses and three mid C13 graduated lancets, with string course forming hoods over these and two groups of triple lancets to north wall and one to south; simple blocked Norman door to north. Harcourt Chapel: 4-light Perpendicular east window of panel tracery; similar 3-light windows, divided by offset buttresses, to 3-bay south wall which has inserted C17 round-arched doorway; corbel table with carved heads, bird, roses and flowers; parapet with pierced quatrefoils, and pinnacles. South transept: mid C13 string course forming hoods over blocked lancet to north-east, two lancets to west and mid C13 pointed moulded doorway to south; remodelled in C15 with 5-light panel tracery window to south and plain parapet. North transept: mid C13 string course forming hoods over two lancets in each side wall and pointed chamfered doorway to north; remodelled in C15 with 3-light panel-tracery window to south and plain parapet. Stair-turret with broached spire adjoins chancel. Tower over crossing: mid C12 double-chamfered round-arched windows to lower stage; C15 bell-stage with 2-light windows and crenellated parapet with gargoyles at corners. South side of nave has two mid C12 round-arched roll-moulded windows and mid C12 doorway: pelleted hood over roll-moulded arch set on jamb shafts with scalloped capitals, and chamfere

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.