Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
errant-lime-jet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1954
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Michael, Onibury
OS grid reference
SO 455 791
Coordinates
52.40772, -2.80144
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church dating from the 14th century, which was restored in 1903 by Detmar Blow. It features a west tower, nave, chancel, and a south porch. The church is constructed of sandstone rubble and has a Welsh slate roof.

On the exterior, there is a 2-light window with trefoil-headed tracery beneath a square hoodmould on the nave. The chancel includes plain lancets and lattice-leaded lights, along with a blocked south doorway under a pointed hoodmould. There is a plain 3-light lancet on the south side with 19th-century glass and a 2-light casement window leading to the gallery. The battlemented tower has a clock and leaded lights. The 20th-century south door is set under a span-arch lintel in a timber-framed porch featuring cusped braces, roughcast plaster, vertical plank panels, and cusped bargeboards.

Inside, the church has a queen post roof and a Norman chancel arch adorned with pellet and dogtooth ornamentation on the imposts. Notable interior features include a piscina, a linenfold pulpit, a restored west gallery, and box-pews. There are memorial tablets, including one for Dorothea Pytt who died in 1657, framed in a rustic Renaissance-style stone surround with ball-finials, as well as a cast-iron grave slab with arms for Richard Walker, who died in 1666, and Mary Walker, who died in 1673. Additional tablets commemorate Thomas Holland, who died in 1679, and Elizabeth Allat, who died in 1781.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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