Church Of St Michael

RUSHOCK CP CHURCH HILL (east side) SO 87 SE 10/94 Church of St Michael

GV II

Parish church. 1756-1758 by Roger Eykyn, or possibly Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, restored 1872. Sandstone ashlar with tile roofs. Nave with short transepts, chancel and west tower. West tower: three stages with crenellated parapet, 2-centred head to belfry window; 2-light window with Y-tracery to first stage. Ground floor: ogee label to Tudor arch doorhead, fanlight and 2-leaf panelled door. Nave: two bays, two windows have Y-tracery, transept has a stone coped verge to gable and a Y-tracery window; chancel: east window of 1872 has two trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head. Interior: west gallery on plain wooden posts; interior of east window has engaged respond shafts. Nave roof of five bays with arch braced collars supporting king-posts to trusses. Fittings mainly of 1872. Tower staircase has (late Cl7?) splat balusters; some C17 panelling is re-used as fixed benches under west gallery. (BoE, p 257; Colvin, H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - l840, (second edition 1978), p 304; Hereford & Worcester Record Office, BA 8693).

Listing NGR: SO8845771193