Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
slow-ember-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Richmond upon Thames
Constituency
Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Elm Bank Gardens, SW13 0NX
OS grid reference
TQ 214 760
Coordinates
51.47062, -0.25282
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church built between 1891 and 1893 by Charles Innes. A north-west vestry was added in 1936, designed to match the original style. The church is constructed of red brick in English bond, with stone dressings and a tiled roof. It features a basilical plan, with the nave and chancel combined, flanked by aisles and a clerestorey. The west end includes an apsidal-ended baptistery, while the east end has an apsidal shape, and there is a Lady Chapel at the north-east.

The windows are primarily lancets, arranged in pairs for the aisles and clerestorey, with buttresses separating each pair. The Lady Chapel showcases paired gables divided by brick and stone buttresses, featuring triple lancets set within giant arches. The church has a plain arched entrance on the north side and a main entrance through a south porch, which includes an arched entrance, benches, and wrought iron gates. The south side also has a gabled sacristy with a triple lancet window and a corner turret topped with a conical roof. The 1936 north-west vestry is similarly built of red brick in English bond, featuring paired lancets, an arched doorcase, and a flat roof.

Inside, the church has a six-bay arcade supported by circular piers with foliate capitals. The wooden roof is of the arch-braced type, adorned with pendants supported by thin colonnettes. The baptistery contains a circular stone font and encaustic tiles, along with original wooden pews. There is a square arched wooden pulpit and a brass lectern on a wooden base. The Lady Chapel features wrought iron gates, encaustic tiles, and a brass screen. The chancel includes a low stone wall with wrought iron gates and original choir stalls. The organ loft is supported by paired arches on a circular pier, with a wrought iron screen above that displays two statues of angels. The sanctuary boasts a fine wooden altar table with paintings of seven saints and a marble reredos. The church is enhanced by good contemporary stained glass throughout, predominantly depicting saints, while the Lady Chapel features scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, with the artist unknown at the time of inspection.

Local climate

Church of St Michael and All Angels sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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