Parish Church Of St Michael

SD 53 SE GRIMSARGH PRESTON ROAD

8/87 Parish Church of St. Michael

II

Church, 1868-9, by Paley and Austin (Pevsner). Snecked sandstone, slate roofs. West tower, nave, north aisle under parallel roof, chancel. Simple Decorated style. Three-stage tower with south-east stair turret, angle buttresses, battlements and pyramidal roof, has 3-light belfry louvres with moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds, and a stone spout projecting from the centre of the string course below the battlements on each side. Five-bay buttressed nave has a sill-band carried round the buttresses, windows of 2 cusped lights each, gabled porch to 2nd bay. Lower single-bay chancel in matching style has traceried east window of 3 lights under a hoodmould with figured stops. North aisle has square-headed windows of 2 cusped lights each, a vestry at the east end with a doorway on the north side and 2 cusped windows in the east gable; this and the aisle have one gargoyle each. Interior: 5-bay aisle arcade of octagonal columns with moulded capitals supporting moulded 2-centred arches; similarly moulded chancel arch with carved angels beneath the capitals; wagon roof supported by short wallposts rising from foliated corbels; chancel with moulded arched door to vestry and 2 sedilia with cusped trefoil heads.

Listing NGR: SD5823533835