Sco Ruston: St Michael
Overview
Grid reference: TG 283 218
The church is basically Decorated with some Perpendicular insertions. In the nineteenth century it was rebuilt to a smaller size, leaving the west tower on its own. The church is faced with flint and has stone dressings. The north-east corner has a brick buttress. The roofs are covered with machine-made tiles.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
As it now stands the church is a rectangular single-cell building under one roof. The south wall of the tower remains as a separate entity further west. There is a south porch.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church is basically Decorated with some Perpendicular insertions. In the nineteenth century it was rebuilt to a smaller size, leaving the west tower on its own.
Exterior Description
The church is faced with flint and has stone dressings. The north-east corner has a brick buttress. The roofs are covered with machine-made tiles.
The first part of the church to be seen is the cliff-like remaining wall of the tower. It is about thirty feet high. No architectural features are discernible save for one jamb of the belfry window on the west side, which appears to be nineteenth-century work.
The present west wall, capped with a small bell-cote, is entirely nineteenth-century, and has no window or doorway. The south wall has the porch at the west end and then three windows, each of two lights but all of differing designs. The western has cusped Y tracery, but the central Perpendicular tracery with panels above the lights, and the eastern plain Y tracery.
The east wall shows exactly how much the church was rebuilt in the nineteenth-century, or up to about halfway it is faced with random sub flints, and then above that the facing changes to finely knapped flints with ashlar stone dressings. The cross on the gable is extravagantly floriated. At the north end is a brick buttress which appears to be eighteenth century.
The north wall of the church has two quite large windows, again with differing tracery, although both are transitional between Decorated and Perpendicular, the western one having ogee-headed lights with panel tracery above; the eastern one, while sharing the ogee heads, has a big cusped mouchette above.
Interior
Interior Description
Inside, the church is one large undivided room, with an open roof of simple construction in which may timbers appear to be mediaeval. The floor is paved with nineteenth-century red tiles laid diagonally, and all the furnishings save two benches are also of the same date. The reveals of of the the windows are painted with diapered patterns of stylized fleurs de-lys, and each has a text above it. The walls are plastered.
The eastern bay is arranged as a chancel with choirstalls set at right-angles each side. These, like the pews, have attractive poppyheads. The pulpit stands by a window on the north side and the lectern is on the south. There is no stained glass in any of the windows, and the church is quite light as a result.
Fixtures and fittings
Pulpit
19th Century
Wooden
Pew (object)
19th Century
Wooden
Rail
Cusped wooden communion rail.
Font (object)
19th Century
The small font is an octagonal nineteenth-century design.
Churchyard
Grid reference: TG 283 218
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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