Presbytery of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Presbytery.
Presbytery of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pier-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Presbytery
- Address
- Presbytery of Church of St Michael, Durham Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 340 491
- Coordinates
- 54.83636, -1.4709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Presbytery of the Church of St. Michael is a Roman Catholic presbytery built in 1837 by Ignatius Bonomi. It is constructed of snecked limestone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is L-shaped and connects to the church via a passage. It has two storeys and four bays.
On the west elevation, there is a stone transomed-and-mullioned two-light window and a six-panelled door with a mullioned fanlight, accompanied by double and single casements. The gable facing the street has a two-light stone mullioned-and-transomed window on each floor, with a relieving arch above, a slit window, and ashlar bands at the peak of the gable. The right side has an irregular four-bay return. The roof features flat stone gable coping that rests on coped footstones, red ridge tiles, and three corniced ashlar chimneys located at the rear, on the left end, and transverse.
Local climate
Presbytery of Church of St Michael receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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