Church Of St Michael, Moor Hospital

The Church of St Michael, part of the Moor Hospital, is an Anglican chapel dating to around 1867, likely designed by Edward Paley. It is built of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The building comprises a nave, a west porch, north and south transepts, a lower chancel with an apsidal east end, and a north projection situated between the transept and chancel. A similar vestry or chapel projection is located on the south side, both under pitched roofs. The design is in the Neo-Norman style, characterized by round-headed windows with alternating red and yellow sandstone voussoirs, a string course below the sills, and iron glazing bars arranged in a pattern of linked circles. The projecting central section of the west wall features a gabled porch with a round-arched doorway framed by angle shafts. Above the doorway are three round-arched roll-moulded lights grouped under a single arch, culminating in a coped gable with a cross finial. The nave has five bays separated by buttresses. The transepts each feature a rose window above two single-light windows. The south projection has a round-headed doorway and two east-facing windows. The apsidal east end has three pairs of round-headed windows.

Inside, the nave has been reduced to two bays and features a roof of arch-braced trusses, strengthened with steel, incorporating king posts and raking struts above the collars. Three rows of purlins with wind braces extend along both sides of the nave. Trusses also cover the transepts and crossing, with principals rising diagonally to support a belfry. The chancel arch’s jambs have three-quarter round mouldings, and the arch has an inner chamfered order carried on corbels and an outer order matching the mouldings of the jambs.