Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1963. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
scattered-wattle-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Staffordshire
Constituency
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire MP: Mike Wood (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 June 1963
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Dudley Road, Himley, DY3 4LA
OS grid reference
SO 882 911
Coordinates
52.51775, -2.1739
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church dated 1764, located on Dudley Road in Himley. The building features cement rendering that mimics ashlar stonework and has a plain tile roof with coped verges. It includes a west tower, a two-bay nave, a single-bay chancel, and a south-east vestry. The design is simple and classical, with most windows featuring keyed semi-circular arches that spring from imposts and contain leaded lights.

The west tower is marked by bands and has a coved parapet band along with a plain parapet. The west door is distinguished by a raised key, and the upper two stages of the tower have louvred windows. A datestone is situated above the west window of the second stage.

Inside, the nave and chancel are defined by pilaster strips at the corners and where they meet. The east window projects canted with a hipped roof, and the vestry has a pedimented gable. The interior features a panelled and gracefully curved west gallery supported by slim iron columns, accessed by a staircase with stick balusters.

Notable fittings include a 19th-century stone font with a hexagonal basin on a cylindrical pedestal adorned with a stiff leaf capital, an 18th-century wooden pulpit with panelled sides, a brass angel lectern from 1894, and a simple classical rood screen and communion rail, both with turned balusters.

A monument to Viscountess Ednam, created in 1930 by Sir W. Reid Dick, depicts a young woman carrying a child on her shoulder. The east window features stained glass depicting Jesus as the good shepherd, installed after 1903.

Local climate

Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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