Church of St Michael and All Angels

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TQ 59 00 11/10004

EASTBOURNE WILLINGDON ROAD Church of St Michael and All Angels

II Church. Designed by Granville Edward Stewart Streatfeild in Decorated Gothic revival style. Chancel vestry and Lady Chapel erected in 1901 (with a temporary iron nave). Nave aisles and tower erected in 1911. Built of unknapped flint with stone dressings and Westmoreland slate roof. West tower, south porch, nave, aisles chancel, north east lady chapel and south east vestry.

Tower of three stages with buttresses surmounted by weathervane. Bellstage has two half-blocked arches with double cinquefoil-headed lights to each face. Gabled south porch with four-centred arched entrance with decorated spandrels. Nave has ten clerestory windows and four windows to aisle. Gabled vestry with paired arched windows to south, and to east triple then seven light cinquefoil windows, Chancel has large rose window with band of chequered flint and stone above with buttresses. Lady Chapel has two arched windows. Interior has five bay nave with pointed arches on octagonal piers. Roof of arched traced type with ogee tension braces. Chancel of three bays with clerestory.

East window has stained glass of Christ in Majesty flanked by four archangels. To south is window depicting St Agatha and St Clare by school of William Morris. Lady Chapel has king post roof and stained glass window depicting Dorcas, also school of William Morris. Pulpit, choir stalls, lectern and organ chamber are original.

Listing NGR: TQ5974300085