Church Of St Michael

SJ 86 NE NORTH RODE CP CHURCH LANE

5/36 CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

GV II

In the descriptive notes the words "north-western porch with south-eastern vestry" shall be amended to read: "north-eastern vestry and south porch".

SJ 86 NE NORTH RODE C.P. CHURCH LANE

5/36 Church of St Michael

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G.V. II

Church. 1845. By C & J Trubshaw. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and tile roof. Western tower, nave, chancel and north-western porch with south-eastern vestry. Tower: West face central doorway with semi-circular loosely Romanesque arch having spaced chevron motifs supported on colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals. Angle buttresses to tower with off-sets. First floor: Two-light window of loosely Early English form having two steeply pitched arched lights with roundel-light to apex and colonnettes and stiff leaf capitals. Circular clock face above with three Early English lancets to belfry above at which stage the buttresses have reduced via off-sets to be clasping buttresses with colonnettes at the corners. Corbel table above supporting plain parapet. 1/4-circular staircase turret in re-entrant angle of nave and tower on north side becoming semi-circular as tower rises above height of nave and set with round-headed casement windows. Rest of tower similar to west face. Nave: South face, of 4 bays, porch to second bay from left with semi-circular loosely Romanesque archway with colonnettes to sides with Early English capitals and figurehead hood moulds. Diagonal buttresses at angles. Cusped niche above arch containing figure of St Michael.Windows have 2 lights, of Early English form with stiff-leaf capitals and colonnettes. North side has three similar windows at right with vestry at left. Chancel: South side of two bays with buttress between windows and at eastern angle. North face similar with lancet at left. Interior: Nave has hammer-beam roof. Four brass corona chandeliers with enamel inlay. Stone pulpit with open arcade and queen quatrefoils in diamond-shaped panels with trefoils between and row of dogtooth to underside of handrail. Pointed tower arch to west with gallery. Encaustic tiles to nave and chancel floors.

Listing NGR: SJ8893966533