Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Parish church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
peeling-sill-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Parish church
Address
Church of St Michael, Sidestrand
OS grid reference
TG 259 397
Coordinates
52.90736, 1.35879
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church with medieval origins that was relocated inland in 1880 to its current site. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features lead roofs. The building includes a west tower, nave, chancel, north vestry, and south porch. The tower is an embattled round structure with three stages, the upper two being octagonal, built in 1881 as a replica of the medieval tower that has since fallen into the sea.

The nave consists of two bays, with two 2-light Perpendicular windows on the south side and one 3-light and one 2-light Perpendicular window on the north side. There is a 19th-century vestry in the first bay. The chancel also has two bays, featuring one 19th-century Y-tracery window and one 19th-century 2-light window with a triangular head on the south side, and a restored Y-tracery window on the north side. The east window is a 19th-century design with three lights.

The porch at the first bay of the nave has single cusped lights on the east and west sides. The doorway features polygonal shafts, abaci, and bases, with a chamfered arch and an outer continuous order with a hood mould. The restored nave doorway has a continuous chamfer that merges into an arch with rolls, and there is a niche above it with a statue of an angel holding a chalice.

Inside, there is a piscina in the south wall of the nave, which has an ogee arch, and drop-seat sedilia in the chancel. The church also contains a 15th-century octagonal font and a stone cross in the southeast nave wall inscribed with 'Orate p aia Willi Atte wod.' The chancel features Jacobean panelling added in 1911 and the royal arms of George IV following the Irish Union. A war memorial, adapted from a Renaissance niche purchased from an antique shop, was created by Seely and Paget. The east window was designed by Henry Holiday and made by Powell (Whitefriars Glass works) in the 1880s.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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