Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1966. Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
sombre-granite-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Staffordshire
Constituency
Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Dove Lane, Rocester
OS grid reference
SK 111 393
Coordinates
52.95164, -1.83519
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church largely rebuilt in the 1870s and 1872 by Ewan Christian, though retaining a 13th-century core. It is constructed of ashlar with clay tile roofs, featuring coped verges. The west tower is of three stages, marked by string courses. It includes blocked 18th-century windows, a narrow trefoil-headed west window, a clock on the second stage's west face, trefoil-headed belfry openings with a hood mould above, and crenellated parapets with gargoyles at the angles. A spire was added in 1870-72. The nave's windows have two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoils and hood moulds. A gabled north porch possesses shaped bargeboards. The south aisle features windows with three trefoil-headed lights, the central one surmounted by a large cinquefoil, and the others by pointed trefoils. The chancel has an east window of five lights with a central cinquefoil-headed light, the others trefoil-headed, together with a rose window, all under a pointed arch. The south vestry has an east window of three trefoil-headed lights, with the central light taller and featuring a rounded trefoil above the others and a pointed trefoil above each side light; a hood mould runs over the top. Its south wall has a Caernarvon arch doorway to the east and a pointed window of two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoils above and a hood mould.

Inside, the nave arcade has cylindrical columns, the two central ones of marble, with square abaci to capitals, from which spring chamfered pointed arches. A particularly wide pointed chancel arch springs from short marble columns on corbels with capitals carved with naturalistic foliage, with an inscription painted around the arch reading "THINE IS THE KINGDOM THE POWER AND THE GLORY". A pointed arch provides access to the west tower. An arcade between the south aisle and vestry features two pointed arches and a central marble column carved with naturalistic foliage, along with an open circle in the spandrel. A wide pointed arch connects the chancel and vestry. Open timber roofs cover the nave and south aisle. The vestry has a collar and scissor truss roof. Fittings include a 19th-century stone font with an octagonal shaft to a moulded base and a circular bowl inscribed with "SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME AND FORBID THEM NOT FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” A 19th-century stone pulpit bears the sacred monogram "Ihr" and the inscription "HE THAT HATH MY WORD LET HIM SPEAK MY WORD FAITHFULLY.” There is also a 19th-century wooden reredos with cusped panels and gilt tracery. Stained glass includes old fragments in the south aisle's west window and a 19th-century east window by de Morgan. A marble plaque in the south aisle commemorates Honoris Bainbrigge, who died in 1788, featuring a segmental base, moulded cornice, and an urn draped with cloth.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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