Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SWINLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384535
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SWINLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384535
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, SWINLEY 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, SWINLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58377 06555
Details
WIGAN
SD50NE SWINLEY ROAD
24-1/2/86 Church of St Michael
11/07/83
II*
Church. 1875-8, by GE Street. Snecked sandstone rubble with
quoins, graduated slate roofs (mostly green).
PLAN: nave with north and south aisles, chancel with north
transept and south vestry.
EXTERIOR: the nave has continuous clerestory arcading with
ashlar pilasters and 2-centred arches in which 7 recessed
chamfered windows alternate with blank arches, and an impost
band carried round to the west end; a very tall 4-light west
window with moulded reveal, a plate-traceried multifoil in the
head, and a hood-mould with returned ends linking by 2
downward steps to the carried-round impost band; and at the
east end a massive buttressed junction wall to the chancel
rising to a gabled bellcote with offsets and two 2-centred
bell openings. The 5-bay aisles are broad with shallow-pitched
roofs and windows of 3 stepped cusped lights with quoined
surrounds: the north aisle has 3 short windows with a sillband
stepped down to deeper windows in the 2 western bays; the
south aisle has a gabled porch to the 1st bay with a
double-chamfered 2-centred arch and gable coping with kneelers
and apex cross, fenestration which otherwise matches the north
aisle, and at the west end a small apse with 3 small cusped
windows. The vestry, continuing the south aisle by one bay,
has a 2-centred arched doorway with hood-mould linked to a
run-out band, and a 3-light east window.
The north transept has buttresses and a 2-light
plate-traceried window.
The 2-bay chancel has a pair of 2-light windows to the 2nd
bay, with quatrefoils in the head and moulded reveals, and a
3-light plate-traceried east window.
INTERIOR: 5-bay nave arcade of cylindrical columns with wide
annular caps carrying 2-centred arches moulded in 3 orders;
string course, arcaded clerestory in which deep
double-chamfered window reveals alternate with blind windows;
tiered queen-strut roof with 3-stage archbracing and an
unusual pair of brattished through-purlins; large chancel arch
now furnished with good early C20 screen in Perpendicular
style; chancel with 2 wide unequal arches housing organ on
north side, and 2-bay south arcade to Lady Chapel, ribbed
barrel-vault wooden ceiling, carved alabaster reredos, east
window reveals with statues under crocket canopies; apsidal
baptistery under cusped arch at west end of south aisle;
carved wooden war memorial screen at west end.
Listing NGR: SD5837706555
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/45411
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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