Church of St Michael and All Angels

Church of St Michael and All Angels, Willingdon Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1262164
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1992
Statutory Address:
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Willingdon Road
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1262164
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1992
Statutory Address 1:
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Willingdon Road

Location

Statutory Address:
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Willingdon Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
East Sussex
District:
Eastbourne (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 59743 00085

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 March 2021 to correct the architect name and to reformat the text to current standards


TQ 59 00
11/10004

EASTBOURNE
WILLINGDON ROAD
Church of St Michael and All Angels

II
Church. Designed by Granville Edward Stewart Streatfeild in Decorated Gothic revival style. Chancel vestry and Lady Chapel erected in 1901 (with a temporary iron nave). Nave aisles and tower erected in 1911. Built of unknapped flint with stone dressings and Westmoreland slate roof. West tower, south porch, nave, aisles chancel, north east lady chapel and south east vestry.

Tower of three stages with buttresses surmounted by weathervane. Bellstage has two half-blocked arches with double cinquefoil-headed lights to each face. Gabled south porch with four-centred arched entrance with decorated spandrels. Nave has ten clerestory windows and four windows to aisle. Gabled vestry with paired arched windows to south, and to east triple then seven light cinquefoil windows, Chancel has large rose window with band of chequered flint and stone above with buttresses. Lady Chapel has two arched windows. Interior has five bay nave with pointed arches on octagonal piers. Roof of arched traced type with ogee tension braces. Chancel of three bays with clerestory.

East window has stained glass of Christ in Majesty flanked by four archangels. To south is window depicting St Agatha and St Clare by school of William Morris. Lady Chapel has king post roof and stained glass window depicting Dorcas, also school of William Morris. Pulpit, choir stalls, lectern and organ chamber are original.

Listing NGR: TQ5974300085

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