Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Eastbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1992. Church.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- weathered-gallery-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Eastbourne
- Constituency
- Eastbourne MP: Josh Babarinde (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1992
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Willingdon Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 597 000
- Coordinates
- 50.77834, 0.26446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed church located on Willingdon Road in Eastbourne. It was designed by Granville Edward Stewart Streatfeild in the Decorated Gothic revival style. The chancel vestry and Lady Chapel were built in 1901, accompanied by a temporary iron nave, while the nave aisles and tower were completed in 1911. The church is constructed of unknapped flint with stone dressings and features a Westmoreland slate roof. It includes a west tower, south porch, nave, aisles, chancel, northeast Lady Chapel, and southeast vestry.
The tower consists of three stages and is supported by buttresses, topped with a weathervane. The bell stage has two half-blocked arches with double cinquefoil-headed lights on each face. The gabled south porch features a four-centred arched entrance with decorated spandrels. The nave contains ten clerestory windows and four aisle windows. The gabled vestry has paired arched windows to the south and a combination of triple and seven-light cinquefoil windows to the east. The chancel is distinguished by a large rose window with a band of chequered flint and stone above, flanked by buttresses. The Lady Chapel has two arched windows.
Inside, the nave has five bays with pointed arches resting on octagonal piers. The roof is of the arched traced type with ogee tension braces. The chancel comprises three bays with a clerestory. The east window features stained glass depicting Christ in Majesty flanked by four archangels. To the south, there is a window showing St Agatha and St Clare, created by the school of William Morris. The Lady Chapel has a king post roof and a stained glass window depicting Dorcas, also by the school of William Morris. The original pulpit, choir stalls, lectern, and organ chamber remain intact.
Local climate
Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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