Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade I listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. A C14 Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
moated-stair-larch
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Lane, Steventon
OS grid reference
SU 464 914
Coordinates
51.61977, -1.33058
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a church dating from the early 14th century, with alterations in the late 15th century, likely funded by Sir Hugh Calveley. It is constructed of coursed stone rubble to the south aisle and tower, uncoursed stone rubble to the nave, with lead roofs. The church comprises a three-bay chancel, a six-bay nave, a south aisle, and a south tower.

The south tower has a two-centred arched doorway with a hood mould and double-leaf doors featuring Perpendicular wood tracery ribbing. There are two-light reticulated tracery windows on the south aisle and the west side of the tower. Stone mullion windows with cusped lights are located to the left of the nave, while a two-light stone mullion window with Perpendicular heads to the lights is found to the right of the chancel. A two-light reticulated tracery window illuminates the east end of the south aisle, and a five-light Perpendicular tracery window faces the east end of the chancel. The north side of the nave features a two-centred arched doorway with a hood mould and carved end stops. Reticulated tracery windows are also present on the north nave, with a three-light intersecting tracery window on the north chancel, next to a window of unusual reticulated tracery. The west end has a round-arched doorway with a hood mould, carved end stops, and a central boss, leading to ribbed double-leaf doors. Above the doorway is a three-light stone mullion window with Perpendicular heads and a hood mould, while the top stage of the tower has two-light reticulated tracery louvred openings on each side, topped by a battlemented parapet.

Inside, the chancel has an arch-braced collar-truss roof with moulded ribs, a mid-collar purlin, and carved bosses. A recess to the right of the east window features a stone tracery vault. Also present are a 19th-century piscina and a two-seat sedillia. A two-centred segmental arch with a hood mould and carved faces to end stops leads to the aisle. There are 19th-century choir stalls, an altar rail, and a tile floor. The nave also boasts an arch-braced collar-truss roof with moulded ribs, a mid-collar purlin, and carved bosses, alongside an octagonal, 19th-century stone font with quatrefoil panels. A lean-to roof once covered the south aisle, a portion of which is now a vestry. 14th-century intaglio glass is found in the east window, and many pews are of 14th-century origin.

Local climate

Church of St Michael and All Angels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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