Church Of St Michael

WEETON WITH PREESE CHURCH ROAD SD 33 SE Church of St.Michael 8/77 - - II

Church, 1842, enlarged 1851 (Pevsner). Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof with bellcote at west gable. Nave with north porch, chancel with south vestry. Very simple Early English style. Buttressed 4-bay nave has coupled lancets in each bay except 3rd which has gabled porch with 2-centred arch; stepped triple lancet west window (entrance to basement boiler room below). Slightly lower chancel,of one bay has similar windows, and small gabled vestry on south side. Interior: arch-braced and strutted kingpost roof of stout timbers; original pews with numbered doors; wooden minister's desk and pulpit in matching style with simple Gothic traceried panels; west end, which is raised over basement, has similar panelled rail and a small square organ (by T. and C. Lane, Earl Shilton, Leics.); on south wall a framed parchment records the laying of the foundation stone "of this church erected by public subscription on a site granted by the Earl of Derby", on September 29th 1842, by Thomas Clifton Esq., of Lytham Hall; and there is a decorated brass memorial tablet in memory of the 15th Earl of Derby erected "by the servants employed on his North Lancashire Estates 1893"; flanking east window are painted commandment tables. Listed as apparently little-altered example of its type and period.

Listing NGR: SD3846034103