St Michael and All Angels Church, Belmont Abbey

Heritage listing

Details MATERIALS: sandstone, laid in diminishing courses, with dressings of Forest of Dean stone and a tiled roof. PLAN: the building has an aisled nave of three-bays with crossing tower, transepts, aisled choir of four bays and sanctuary. There are side chapels to the south of the nave and at the east end of the chancel aisles. EXTERIOR: the west front has a central doorway with colonettes at either side and richly-moulded arch with hoodmould. Above it is a tall, five-light window with a tracery rose to its upper body with trefoils and hexafoils and a large cross in the tracery. To the top of the gable is a cluster of three trefoils below a hoodmould. At either side are buttresses with offsets and gabled caps and beyond these the aisle windows are each of two lights with mouchettes and quatrefoils to the apex. Behind this front rises the crossing tower, which has two recessed belfry openings to each face, with two louvered lights to each. There are angle buttresses and a crenellated parapet. The north and south faces each have a clock face below the belfry stage. The nave flanks each have six clerestory lights of two lights, joined as pairs by a common hoodmould and separated by buttresses. The aisles have lean-to roofs and their windows are of five lights with mouchettes and cinquefoils to each apex. Projecting at the centre of the north aisle is a porch, moved here in 1863 from the south side. This has a statue of the Virgin and Child in a canopied niche to the gable above the door and two-light windows to each flank. The side chapel, built after 1863 on the site of the porch removed from the south side, is less deep and has a three-light window. The northern transept projects further than that on the south. It has a four-light window to its gable end, above which a

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.