Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1971. Church.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
nether-parapet-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1971
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Front Street, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NZ 026 368
Coordinates
54.72678, -1.96021
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church built in 1869 by G R Street. It is constructed from dressed sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, featuring a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and a north porch, as well as a chancel with a north organ chamber and a vestry. It is designed in the Decorated style.

The gabled porch has a boarded door with delicate wrought-iron hinges set in a 2-centred arch beneath a flower-stopped drip-mould. The tower features a roll-moulded plinth beneath a tall 2-light west window, and it has 2-light, 2-centred-arched bell openings in the second stage, which are adorned with scalloped louvres under tracery. A corbel table supports a tall stone-flagged broach spire, which has four lucarnes and a tall weather-cock finial. There is also a gabled north stair-turret. The windows include tracery in the 3-light nave and 2-light aisle windows, as well as in the 3-light organ window. The vestry and chancel have cusped 2-light windows, and the wide square-headed sanctuary window contains tracery. A sill string steps up from a wide buttress at the east end of the nave towards the sanctuary and steps down under the 3-light east window, which is flanked by buttresses. The building features moulded rain-water heads and wrought-iron bars and rails with trident finials over the windows.

Inside, the church has sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and an arch-braced collar truss roof, with cusped struts above the collar in the nave. The north arcade consists of four chamfered roll-moulded arches on round piers with moulded capitals. The west arch springs from the wall, while the east arch has mouldings that are continuous from the pilaster. The chancel arch is chamfered and wide, with a figure-stopped drip-mould and an inner corbelled moulded arch. The tall tower arch features continuous triple chamfers, and all arches are 2-centred. There is a wide organ arch, and the windows have chamfered rere arches. The chancel includes a 2-light north aumbry and south sedilia with tracery, as well as a south sanctuary light. The chancel floor is made of medieval-style tiles in red, black, glazed green, and slip patterns, while the nave aisles are tiled in plain red, black, and cream.

Local climate

Church of St Michael and All Angels sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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