Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1967. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- first-span-crimson
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Surrey Heath MP: Dr Al Pinkerton (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Church Lane, Pirbright, GU24 0JJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 942 559
- Coordinates
- 51.29458, -0.64992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed church located in Pirbright, rebuilt in 1784 by Thomas Woods, who was the Churchwarden. The chancel was altered in the mid-19th century. The church features blue and brown brick in header bond, with red brick dressings on a galleted heathstone plinth for the nave, and a galleted heathstone tower to the west and chancel to the east. It has a plain tiled roof with a lead spike over the tower.
The structure includes a box nave with a square tower to the west, a gabled porch to the south, an aisle to the north, and a chancel to the east, which has a vestry to the north and an organ bay to the south. The battlemented tower has round-arch, louvred openings in the upper stage on all faces, and a roundel on the south side. There is a 20th-century, part-glazed door under a stone traceried overlight at the west end, along with three round-arched, leaded windows in gauged brick surrounds on the north and south sides. The east end features a decorated stone tracery window connected by a cill band, and there are 20th-century doors under a round arch surround in the gabled porch to the south.
Inside, there is a post and lintel Doric arcade on the north side with three tapering columns on panelled wooden pedestals. A gallery spans the west end supported by thin iron columns, with a balustrade above. The chancel arch, dating from the 19th century, leads to a small chancel with a square panel and a painted ceiling, and there is a blind arch on the south side. The church contains 20th-century fittings and a 19th-century octagonal stone font with panelled sides decorated with quatrefoil panels on a panelled, octagonal stem.
Local climate
Church of St Michael and All Angels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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