School in Churchyard of Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. School.
School in Churchyard of Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- lost-clay-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble MP: Mr Paul Foster (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1967
- Type
- School
- Address
- School in Churchyard of Church of St Michael, Church Street, Croston
- OS grid reference
- SD 489 183
- Coordinates
- 53.65951, -2.77366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The school located in the churchyard of the Church of St. Michael was rebuilt in 1827. It is constructed from squared sandstone and has slate roofs. The building is divided into three parts, creating a canted enclosure on the south side of the churchyard. The main block is a two-storey structure with three bays, built over a pathway leading to a bridge. To the left is a canted single-storey wing, and to the right is a lower two-storey continuation with four bays. The design is in the Tudor style.
The symmetrical main block features a central passage with a two-centred archway, which is surrounded by a square hoodmould adorned with carved quatrefoils in the spandrels. There are three-light mullioned windows on either side of the archway, as well as similar windows with three, two, and three lights on the first floor. The roof is steeply pitched, and there is a large external chimney on the left gable with clustered flues, along with a smaller chimney on the right gable featuring coupled flues.
The single-storey canted wing on the left has a mullioned window with a hoodmould. The two-storey extension on the right has four square windows with hoodmoulds on each floor, all of which have altered glazing. In the centre of the first floor, there are two datestones, one above the other, which read: "IAMES HIET VICAR AND:RE CTOR 1660" and "THIS SCHOOL WAS REBUILT BY SUBSCRIPTION A.D. MDCCCXXVII."
The rear of the building has an archway that matches the one at the front, with wings flanking the bays. The first bay is canted, and there is a continuous dripcourse with an arched doorway leading into each wing.
Local climate
School in Churchyard of Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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