Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 November 1971. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- burning-step-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Church Avenue, Stourport-On-Severn
- OS grid reference
- SO 814 717
- Coordinates
- 52.34359, -2.27361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael in Stourport on Severn is a Grade II listed building that began construction in 1881 but was left unfinished when it was consecrated in 1910. It was never completed and was partially demolished in 1980. Designed by George Gilbert Scott, the work was continued after his death by his son, John Oldrid Scott. The church features a sandstone facing over a brick core. What remains includes the footings for the west wall and substantial parts of the north and south walls, including the south porch. The porch has a steep gable with crocketted niches on either side and above the cusped archway, along with decorated spandrels in the angles. The gables are coped and capped with a cross as a finial. Inside, there is a vaulted ceiling and a Decorated style inner arch with clustered shafts, along with an original door featuring ironwork. There are two surviving windows with Decorated style tracery on either side of the porch and lower embrasures for two additional windows to the east. The north door, also with original ironwork, is located in the heavily buttressed north wall. Polygonal stair turrets are present at the northeast and southeast corners. Inside, remnants of shafts for aisle arcading and an arch to the south chancel aisle can be seen. This church is the third built on the site, replacing a brick church constructed in 1782, which itself replaced a medieval building.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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