Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- inner-rood-clover
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Nene Way, Sutton, City of Peterborough
- OS grid reference
- TL 095 987
- Coordinates
- 52.57537, -0.38524
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building located on Sutton Nene Way. It has its origins in the 12th century and was a chapelry to Castor until 1851, confirmed to Peterborough Abbey by Richard I and Henry III. The church is constructed from coursed stone rubble and arches, featuring a Collyweston stone roof for the chancel and a lead roof for the nave. The nave was likely rebuilt in the early 15th century but retains an early 12th-century chancel arch. The nave walls were raised in the late 15th century, incorporating a Perpendicular clerestory.
Notable architectural features include an early 15th-century double chamfered north doorway and three late 15th-century north windows with four-centred arch heads. The west side has an early 13th-century lancet window that slightly projects, topped with a gabled bellcote featuring an arched opening. The chancel was rebuilt or enlarged in the late 12th century and largely reconstructed in 1867-8, which included a 19th-century east window with plate tracery. The north wall of the chancel has a small ogee-headed light from the 14th century and a square-headed window from the 15th century.
The late 12th-century south aisle consists of two bays, featuring a square-headed window with two ogee-headed lights and a south doorway adorned with zigzag and pellet ornamentation on the lintel, supported by shoulder corbels. The south chapel, dating from the 13th century and largely rebuilt in 1867-8, contains a small reset lancet in the east wall and two coupled lancets in the south wall, with a 13th-century string course decorated with dog tooth ornamentation on the east wall.
Inside, the church features a Norman chancel arch with capitals displaying beaded interlace, and the arch itself has flat rolls. There is a two-bay south arcade from around 1200 with double chamfered round arches, a circular pier, a moulded capital, and a square abacus with recessed angles. The early 12th-century south chapel has a pointed double chamfered arch and semi-octagonal responds. The church also contains 19th-century furnishings and possibly a 14th-century font with a panelled octagonal bowl, supported by an octagonal central shaft surrounded by eight smaller shafts. A recumbent lion sculpture, likely Norman and possibly from a portal, is also present.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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