Church Of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. A C19 Church.

Church Of St Michael

WRENN ID
noble-balcony-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Walsall
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a church built in 1856 on an older site by James Cranston. It was lengthened, and a south-west tower with a spire was added in 1867-1868. The church is constructed of limestone with rubble walls and steep tile roofs. It consists of a nave, north and south transepts, a lower chancel, and a north vestry.

The tower features angle buttresses and a central buttress that is set forward above the lowest stage. Each side of this buttress has a one-light opening in both upper stages. The broach spire includes red sandstone bands and lucarnes with detached square shafts. The west door is moulded with a pointed arch and angle shafts. The west window of the nave has Geometrical tracery and consists of four lights, while the nave windows are made up of paired trefoiled lights.

On the south side, the nave has three bays separated by buttresses, and on the north side, it has four bays with an additional one-light window to the east. There is a stair turret at the angle with the transept. The north wall of the transept features three trefoiled lights, above which is a two-light window with Geometrical tracery. The lower part of the south transept is now covered by a gabled porch and a late 20th-century extension. The chancel's east window consists of three trefoiled lights with Geometrical tracery.

Inside, the nave roof trusses have curved braces that rise to collars, and at the crossing, two trusses intersect diagonally to create a skeleton vault. The chancel arch is narrower than the nave and is pointed and moulded in two orders. A fresco painted in 1905 covers the east wall of the transept, and the windows contain some late 19th-century and early 20th-century glass.

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