Church of St Michael and All Angels
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201794
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Road
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- Date:
- 1999-10-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/02124/07
- Rights:
- © Mr D.R. Smith. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201794
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Road
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, Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89132 00292
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 June 2025 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SJ8900
895-1/9/110
TETTENHALL
CHURCH ROAD (North side)
Church of St Michael and All Angels
29-JUL-50
II
Church. C15 west tower; south porch, 1882-1883, by G.E. Street; nave, chancel and vestry rebuilt after fire of 1950 in 1952-1955, to the designs of Bernard Miller. Ashlar with tile roofs. Two-bay Lady Chapel with north vestry; three-bay nave has lean-to aisles with cross gables, south porch and west tower. Decorated Gothic style, Miller's work parts a free interpretation of the Gothic style. Projecting Lady Chapel has coped parapet and gable with cross; round windows and four-light east window; small projection with entrance to south. Six-window vestry range to north has two-light straight-headed windows and north entrance with overlight and keystone. Aisles have three gabled windows of three lights with flanking blind lights between gabled buttresses; south porch has coped gable with cross and arch dying into jambs between diagonal buttresses, rib vault and inner entrance of two orders; clerestory has seven two-light segmental-headed windows. South-east bell turret and stack. Two-stage tower has moulded plinth and diagonal buttresses; three-light west window with renewed tracery, hood with beast stops; similar stops to top stage sill courses; two-light louvred bell openings; top cornice with gargoyles and embattled parapet; north and south quatrefoils below bell openings with cornices.
INTERIOR: nave arcades on squat piers with foliate capitals; deep-arch-braced oak roofs, those to aisles with inverted hip form. The altar was always placed centrally in the crossing, so that the Lady Chapel takes the place of the traditional Chancel, screened by a low wall to arch with pulpit to one side. This was replaced by an openwork oak screen in 1985. Hanging bell-form lights. Most furnishings also designed by Miller, whose emblem of a bee can be seen in the altar rails. Round font with mosaic decoration by G. Mayer-Marton hints at Miller's love of more theatrical motifs. East window by G Cooper-Abbs of Exeter.
Bernard Miller, long associated with the Liverpool School of Architecture, built many churches in the 1930s with surprisingly art deco flourishes. Tettenhall is very different. The design is strongly arts-and-crafts inspired, its broad, light form and reticulated Gothic reminiscent of E S Prior's St Andrew's, Roker (grade I) of 1906. This lavish 1950s' recreation may be compared with the slightly later work of George Pace, mainly working in Yorkshire and around Manchester, who also reinterpreted this style in a modern manner.
Listing NGR: SJ8913200292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378357
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 5
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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