St Michael and All Angels Church, Bude

Heritage listing

Details SS 2006 - 2106 BUDE-STRATTON BUDE 11/159 Church of St Michael and - All Angels - II Parish church, originally built as Chapel of Ease to Stratton Parish Church. Designed 1834 by George Wightwick for Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet and enlarged 1878 by Edward Ashworth for Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet. Dressed yellow Trerice porphyry with slate roof. original build in the lancet style of nave, chancel, north porch, corresponding south vestry, west tower with gabled belfry. Chancel rebuilt and north and south transepts added 1877-1878. South-east vestry added 1896. Baptistry on site of 1834 vestry added 1914. Restoration of 1935. Late C19 alterations sympathetic to Wightwick's original design. Shallow chancel has angle buttresses with set-offs and triple lancet east window with continuous hoodmould with label stops. Blind quatrefoil above east window. North and south sides have buttresses with off-sets, angle buttresses to east and west ends and 4 tall chamfered lancet windows. North and south transepts have north and south triple lancets under superordinate pointed arch. Gabled west end choir projection has triple lancet under continuous hoodmould with label stops. In the gable is a recessed clock opening under a pointed hoodmould with label stops. Narrow lancets on either side of clock. Gabled belfry at west end has coped gable and openings. 2 bells in openings. Single lancet windows to vestry. Baptistry has heavily-moulded arched east doorway, round-headed windows to south side and large quatrefoil window to west end. Tall gabled north porch has set-back buttresses, coped gable and chamfered arched doorway. Interior. Nave has diagonally boarded roof above 4 trusses of 1834. Trusses are queen post with subsidiary vertical posts above a tie beam suppo

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.