Church of St Michael and All Angels
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138795
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138795
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middlewich
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70390 66250
Details
MIDDLEWICH C.P. HIGH TOWN SJ 76 NW 2/30 Church of St Michael and All Angels
GV II*
Church, largely circa 1500 with a little C12 work inside and heavily restored by Joseph Clarke 1857-60. Red sandstone with low-pitched roofs. North-west tower, aisled nave with south porch, chancel with chapels continuing from nave aisles. Crenellated 3-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, west window to vestry with intersecting tracery and panel-work, clock faces to west and east and 2-light bellringer's chamber window to north and south, paired 2-light bell-openings under single ogee hoodmoulds, quatrefoil band below parapet. 4-light panel-traceried aisle and chapel windows, north door with square-topped 4-light window above, 2-storey south porch with 3-light window over doorway, 3-light clerestorey windows. Canted west end to south aisle and east end to south chapel. 2 panel-traceried 4-light windows to east end of south chapel, reticulated east window to chancel flanked by 1-light window to each side, 5-light panel-traceried window and basket-arched doorway in east end of north chapel. Crenellation with crocketed pinnacles above buttresses. Interior: Nave of 4 full and 1 narrow bays;the narrow bay is at east end with late Norman pier and chancel respond in each arcade, the other bays are Perpendicular with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Camber-beamed, panelled oak roof with carved bosses. Oak trusses to south chapel roof. Chancel arch has continuous moulding and no capitals. Chancel arcades have 2 4-centred arches south and 2 probably earlier arches north. North chapel has 1 basket-arched truss on carved-head corbels. C16/C17 screen to chapels, restored, with small carvings; screen overthrows now in tower vestry, one inscribed ANNO DNI 1632: Peter Venables, the other, from Kinderton (north) Chapel has many painted heraldic panels. Continental east window glass, 1860; late C19/early C20 memorial glass, stalls and 1 carved misericord in chancel (north side).
Listing NGR: SJ7039066250
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56361
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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