Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
hollow-minaret-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Breinton
OS grid reference
SO 473 395
Coordinates
52.05163, -2.76918
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church with a core dating back to the 12th century, which was almost entirely rebuilt and enlarged by P. R. Kempson between 1866 and 1870. It is constructed from coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs. The church features a nave with a bell turret, a north aisle, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The nave includes a west rectangular bell turret topped with a short octagonal broach spirelet. On the south front, there are paired trefoil-headed lights to the left and a group of three similar lights to the right of the gabled south porch, which also has a trefoil in a roundel on both returns. The north aisle has three pairs of trefoil-headed lights and the west end contains vestigial remains of a 12th-century semi-circular headed doorway, along with a re-set semi-circular headed light above it.

In the chancel, there are two trefoiled ogee-headed lights on the south side and an east window featuring three trefoiled ogee-headed lights. The interior, dating from the late 19th century, includes a plain chancel arch and a four-bay arcade leading to the north aisle, with stained glass in the north aisle windows made by Powell in 1874. Notable monuments include a wall tablet for Rudhall Booth from 1685, made of painted wood with arms and rustic lettering.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Breinton House Grade II 200 m
  2. Belmont House Grade II* 852 m
  3. 3 Manor Cottages and South View Grade II 1.2 km
  4. Warham Court Grade II 1.3 km
  5. Abbey Church of St Michael and All Angels Grade II* 1.6 km
  6. Almshouses and Chapel at Ngr 485383 Grade II 1.7 km
  7. Monastery Buildings of Benedictine Abbey of St Michael and All Angels Grade II 1.7 km
  8. Church of All Saints Grade I 1.8 km
  9. Manor Cottages Grade II 1.8 km
  10. Milestone at Ngr So 475373 Grade II 2.2 km