Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Fylde local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- lost-landing-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fylde
- Constituency
- Fylde MP: Mr Andrew Snowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Church Road, Weeton-With-Preese
- OS grid reference
- SD 384 341
- Coordinates
- 53.79959, -2.93581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael, built in 1842 and enlarged in 1851, is located on Church Road in Weeton with Preese. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof with a bellcote at the west gable. The church is designed in a very simple Early English style, consisting of a nave with a north porch and a chancel with a south vestry. The nave has four bays, each with coupled lancets, except for the third bay which has a gabled porch with a two-centred arch. The west window is a stepped triple lancet, providing entrance to the basement boiler room below. The slightly lower chancel has one bay with similar windows and a small gabled vestry on the south side.
Inside, the church features an arch-braced and strutted kingpost roof made of stout timbers. It retains original pews with numbered doors, along with a wooden minister's desk and pulpit that match in style, both adorned with simple Gothic traceried panels. The west end, raised over the basement, has a similar panelled rail and a small square organ made by T. and C. Lane from Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. On the south wall, a framed parchment commemorates the laying of the foundation stone on September 29th, 1842, by Thomas Clifton Esq. of Lytham Hall, with public subscription on a site granted by the Earl of Derby. Additionally, there is a decorated brass memorial tablet dedicated to the 15th Earl of Derby, erected by his servants in 1893, and painted commandment tables flanking the east window. The church is listed as a well-preserved example of its type and period.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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