Church Of St Michael And All Angels

WALSALL MB BATH ROAD SP 09 NW 7/4 Church of St Michael and All Angels - II

Church. 1870/71, by J R Veall, restored after fire in 1964. Red sand- stone with some Bath stone dressings and tile roof. Early English style. Comprises a nave,with a west porch and vestry added in 1896, north aisle completed in 1878 and south aisle in 1880. On the north side is a gabled vestry and a chapel, both added in the 1920s. The west porch is of two storeys and two bays, and has a moulded pointed north doorway. The aisles are of five bays, separated by buttresses and with plate tracery. The windows are each of two lancet lights. The clerestory windows are paired lancets. Each of the three sides of the apse has a window of a single- multi-foiled light. Interior: nave arcade of five bays with pointed sand- stone arches which have edge mouldings. Round columns have foliated capitals. The clerestory windows each have a central inner banded shaft with foliated capital. The ribbed wagon roof replaces the original one destroyed in 1964. The windows of the apse are flanked by narrow shafts. The font and pulpit are of sandstone, the latter with elaborate Gothic arcading. (BoE, p 293).

Listing NGR: SP0143697720