Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1986. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1986
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich
OS grid reference
SJ 703 662
Coordinates
53.19252, -2.44463
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church largely dating to around 1500, with some 12th-century work incorporated internally, and heavily restored between 1857 and 1860 by Joseph Clarke. It is constructed of red sandstone with low-pitched roofs. The church includes a north-west tower, an aisled nave with a south porch, and a chancel with chapels extending from the nave aisles.

The crenellated three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses. A west window with intersecting tracery and panel work is present, along with clock faces to the west and east sides. There are two-light bellringer's chamber windows to the north and south, paired two-light bell openings under a single ogee hood mould, and a quatrefoil band below the parapet. Four-light panel-traceried windows are positioned on the aisles and chapels. The north door is topped with a square-topped four-light window. The two-story south porch includes a three-light window above the doorway. Clerestory windows are three-light. The south aisle has a canted west end, while the south chapel features a canted east end. The east end of the south chapel has two panel-traceried four-light windows, and the chancel has a reticulated east window flanked by single-light windows to each side. A five-light panel-traceried window and a basket-arched doorway are found in the east end of the north chapel. Crenellations with crocketed pinnacles stand above the buttresses.

Inside, the nave spans four full bays, and a narrower bay at the east end featuring a late Norman pier and chancel respond in the arcades. The remaining bays are Perpendicular, with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. The nave is topped with a camber-beamed, panelled oak roof, featuring carved bosses. Oak trusses support the roof of the south chapel. The chancel arch has continuous moulding and lacks capitals. Chancel arcades display two four-centred arches to the south and two likely earlier arches to the north. The north chapel includes a basket-arched truss supported by carved-head corbels. A restored screen, dating from the 16th/17th centuries, and incorporating small carvings, separates the chapels; screen overthrows are now located within the tower vestry. One screen panel is inscribed “ANNO DNI 1632: Peter Venables”, and another, from Kinderton Chapel, bears numerous painted heraldic panels. Continental-style stained glass was installed in 1860, and later 19th/20th-century memorial glass is also present. There are stalls and one carved misericord in the chancel on the north side.

Local climate

Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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