Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. A 19th century Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- haunted-grate-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Durham Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 340 492
- Coordinates
- 54.8365, -1.47107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a Roman Catholic parish church built in 1837 by Ignatius Bonomi, with a later addition of a porch. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with sandstone dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. The church has an unaisled four-bay nave, a west porch, and a one-bay chancel.
The west front showcases three stepped lancets beneath a semi-circular drip mould, flanked by buttresses topped with broach spirelets. There is a trefoil window at the peak of the gable and three stepped lancets on the porch gable facing the street. Inside, the original pointed-arched entrance, which is flanked by recessed columns, is now located in the porch. The western organ loft slopes and is supported by two rows of cast iron columns and wooden brackets. Historically, the church was built with a school in the undercroft, as noted by Rev. O'Gorman.
Local climate
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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