Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. Parish church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 August 1984
Type
Parish church
Address
Church of St Michael, Monkton Combe
OS grid reference
ST 772 619
Coordinates
51.35592, -2.32854
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is an Anglican parish church built in 1865 by C.E. Giles of Taunton, replacing an earlier church from 1814. It was altered and enlarged in 1886 by E.H.L. Barker. The church features a west tower, nave, chancel, south aisle and chapel, and north aisle and chapel, all designed in an Early English style.

The west tower has two stages, a saddleback roof with a weathervane, set back buttresses, and a cylindrical stair tower with a conical roof on the north side. The bell chamber includes a corbel table and triple lancet lights, while the west window has two-light plate tracery. There is a chamfered doorway under a gable on the north side. The north aisle contains two 2-light plate tracery windows and a coarsely cut wheel window in the north transept. The chancel features a 3-light east window with lancets and foiled circles above. The south aisle and chapel have single 2- and 3-light trefoil-headed windows, some with dripmoulds and carved stops.

Inside, there is a three-bay arcade supported by cylindrical columns and pointed arches. All interior fittings date from the 1860s and later.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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