The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 2016. Church, schoolroom.

The Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
long-groin-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Shropshire
Constituency
South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 July 2016
Type
Church, schoolroom
Address
The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Cwm Head, Church Stretton, Wistanstow, SY6 6PX
OS grid reference
SO 423 887
Coordinates
52.49315, -2.85091
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a combined church and schoolroom built between 1846 and 1849, designed by HJ Whitling of Shrewsbury in a neo-Norman style. The building is constructed of rubble sandstone with stone dressings and a slate roof. The plan consists of a nave, a polygonal chancel, a western porch in line with the nave, and a bell tower attached to the north side of the chancel, which also houses a vestry at ground level.

The exterior of the nave features three bays separated by broad buttresses which have quoins and angled offsets at the top, along with a roll moulding positioned halfway up. Each arched lancet window is set within a relieving arch and has diagonally tooled stonework with a carved border to each stone block. The eastern wall of the nave has a coping that projects above the roofline, bearing a stone cross at its apex. The chancel features a stone roll moulding at sill level, following the curve of the apse, and exposed rafter ends carved around the apse. The western porch is gabled with a round-arched portal flanked by colonettes with carved capitals; single lancet windows are positioned either side. The western wall of the nave has setback buttresses at each corner and a circular window within the gable, featuring a chamfered surround. The tower, situated north of the chancel, has a single lancet window on its north face. It narrows slightly via an offset to a more slender belfry stage, which has chamfers at the corners and two-light louvred openings on each side. The short, octagonal stone spire is splay-footed where it joins with the square body of the tower.

Inside, the nave has widely-spaced, slender common rafters and a single rank of purlins. The trusses employ wall posts and arched braces rising from moulded wooden brackets to connect with the ties, which support a king post secured by angle braces. The round chancel arch is plain, and the chancel has a roll moulding at dado height. Pine pews in the nave, along with the altar table with its round-arched frieze, are believed to date from the 19th century. Oak choir stalls were added in the early 20th century. The windows are clear glass, except for the eastern window, which dates from 1864 and was created by Done and Davies, depicting the crucifixion.

A gig house or bier house and stable located to the south-east of the church is not of significant architectural or historic interest and is excluded from the listing.

Local climate

The Church of St Michael and All Angels 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 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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