Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1987. Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
small-lintel-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wyre Forest
Constituency
Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1987
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Church Hill, Rushock
OS grid reference
SO 884 711
Coordinates
52.33871, -2.17084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church built between 1756 and 1758, attributed to either Roger Eykyn or possibly Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, with restoration work completed in 1872. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features tile roofs. The church consists of a nave with short transepts, a chancel, and a west tower.

The west tower has three stages and is topped with a crenellated parapet. It includes a belfry window with a 2-centred head and a 2-light window with Y-tracery on the first stage. The ground floor features a Tudor arch doorhead with an ogee label, a fanlight, and a two-leaf panelled door. The nave has two bays, with two windows that also have Y-tracery. The transept has a stone coped verge to the gable and a Y-tracery window. The chancel's east window, added in 1872, has two trefoiled lights beneath a 2-centred head.

Inside, there is a west gallery supported by plain wooden posts, and the interior of the east window features engaged respond shafts. The nave roof consists of five bays with arch braced collars that support king-posts to the trusses. Most of the fittings are from 1872. The tower staircase includes splat balusters that may date from the late 17th century, and some 17th-century panelling has been reused as fixed benches beneath the west gallery.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% 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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