Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1966. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 February 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Michael, Sollers Hope
OS grid reference
SO 612 331
Coordinates
51.99516, -2.5658
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church located in Sollers Hope, dating from the 14th century with a restoration in the 19th century that included the addition of a north vestry and a bell turret in 1887. The church is constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a 20th-century tiled roof. The bell turret is timber-framed and has shingle cladding on its squat spire. The church consists of a nave with a bell turret and a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry.

The nave has two trefoil-headed lights with tracery and a hoodmould to the right of the gabled south porch, which has an outer archway with responds, an outer moulded order, and an inner chamfered order. The chancel contains two trefoil-headed lights with a quatrefoil in the window to the right of a blocked chancel doorway.

Inside, the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHM) notes that the chancel and nave roofs date from the 14th century, featuring moulded and embattled wall-plates and trussed rafter roofs. The chancel arch has two chamfered orders and a two-centred arched head.

Fittings include a plain cylindrical font, possibly from the 13th century, set on a 20th-century base. Monuments within the church include a coffin lid, possibly from the 13th century, located in the chancel, which features a tapering slab with a decorative cross in a roundel and a male figure in military dress. There are also three other coffin lids in the west wall of the nave, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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