Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1950. A 1863-5 Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
unlit-soffit-finch
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney South and Shoreditch MP: Dame Meg Hillier (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 January 1950
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Mark Street Ec2, EC2A 4QX
OS grid reference
TQ 330 823
Coordinates
51.52441, -0.08287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael, built between 1863 and 1865 by James Brooks, is a large church constructed of stock brick with red and blue brick and stone dressings. It features tall slated roofs, a high and wide nave with low, narrow aisles, and a south porch. The church includes a chancel and a south transept chapel, as well as an octagonal bellcote at the east end of the nave. Designed in the Early English style, it showcases plate tracery and a varied rhythm of clerestory and aisle windows. The interior is primarily brick with a stone arcade, and the east window glass is by Clayton and Bell. The church is currently disused. The Church of St Michael and Clergy House form a group with the Sunday School on Leonard Street.

Local climate

Church of St Michael sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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