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:
- 1228367
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- 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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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228367
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- 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:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61537 75939
Details
LITTLE LEIGH C.P. CHURCH ROAD SJ 67 NW (North Side) 2/43 Church of St.Michael and All Angels - GV II
Church: 1878-9 by Edmund Kirby. Fiery orange brick and terracotta. Welsh slate roof with pierced orange tile ridge. 4-bay nave, short transepts, l-bay chancel, south porch and spire at the crossing. Slightly Roguish Gothic. Plinth with dentilated cornice. Bays of nave divided alternately by buttresses and triangular headed pilasters. Gabled porch at left end has projecting coping blocks, brick bands and a multi-rebated and moulded 2-centred arched doorway with a nailhead decorated band above. Pairs of lancets in the other bays with gauged heads and nailhead bands. A triple lancet in the crossing and a trio of lancets in the chancel. Angle buttresses to east end which has a giant moulded arch with a band of trefoil headed blind arcading below a rose window. This has 6 trefoils and a central sexfoil. All detailing is in moulded and decorated terracotta. Triple lancet in the west end. The spire is a giant fleche with wooden louvred cinquefoil headed bell openings on each face. Lucarnes, lead finial and a weathercock. Interior: Entry directly into nave. Brick and terracotta throughout. Ornate cornice and wagon roof. Multi-rebated reveals to the windows. Simple chancel arch and a similar narrower arch to the raised sanctuary. Reredos of boldly moulded scene of the Last Supper in gothic blind arcading all in terracotta (the gift of Sir C. and Lady Greenall). 3-seat sedilia with a lancet above each seat.
Listing NGR: SJ6153775939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402990
- 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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