Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. Church.
Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels
- WRENN ID
- tired-passage-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich MP: Sarah Coombes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels, St Michael Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 004 912
- Coordinates
- 52.51878, -1.99488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels is a Roman Catholic church built between 1875 and 1877 by architects Dunn and Hansom, with a tower and spire added in 1911 by Edmund Kirby. It is constructed of red brick with some stone dressings and has a tiled roof. The church is oriented in a conventional manner, with the chancel located at the south-west end. The layout includes a north-west tower, a nave with a clerestory, a continuous chancel, and north and south aisles, as well as north and south chapels.
The west wall features triple stepped lancets with stone heads and sills, along with a moulded pointed doorway that has angle shafts. The tower is supported by clasping buttresses at the lower stage, with angle buttresses above and corner pinnacles. The stone spire rises above, and the bell openings consist of two trefoiled lights topped with a quatrefoil under a pointed head. The north doorway is also moulded and pointed. The aisles are designed with five bays, alternating between paired lancets and round windows, while the clerestory has single lancets. Each transeptal chapel contains two lancets with a round window above, and there is a rose window at the east end.
Inside, the church features three-bay nave arcades with pointed moulded brick arches that spring from painted round columns with moulded capitals. The roof is supported by scissor-braced rafters, and there is a west organ gallery. The chancel is separated from the nave by an arch-braced truss carried on slim engaged shafts, and the chancel roof is boarded. The east window contains glass dating from the late 19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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