Church Of St Michael

SJ 6904SE; 12/476

MADELEY, CHURCH STREET

Church of St Michael

GV

II*

1796 by Thomas Telford. Ashlar with hipped slate roof. Octagonal on plan. Entablature with finials over the corners. Two tiers of windows with string course between, round-arched windows above square windows. Tower projects at ritual west end (north side), in four stages, rusticated bottom stage, pedimented first stage with round arch window, clock face in third stage and round arched bell opening in recess in top stage with ball finials over the corners of the parapet. Square chancel added in 1910 at ritual east end (south) with large venetian window. Either side of this chancel the two upper windows are niches with responds and containing kneeling figures with inscription below:- remains of monument to the Brooke family of Madeley Hall. INTERIOR: galleries on three sides with two tiers of columns. In the churchyard several early C19 tombs of cast iron, including those of two iron- plasters: William Balwin 1822; a large pedestal with columns at the corners surmounted by sarcophagus. And R R Anstice 1853; arched inscription panels flanked by attached columns with pediment over. Also a cast-iron tomb chest John Fletcher 1785 immediately east of church.

Listing NGR: SJ6962504091