Church Of St Michael

BRISTOL

ST67SW TWO MILE HILL ROAD, St George 901-1/56/1849 (South side) Church of St Michael

II

Church. 1848, mid C19 N aisle. By E Gabriel. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and slate roof. PLAN: nave with a later N aisle, chancel, NW porch and W tower. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: chancel gable has angle buttresses, a small 2-centred arched 3-light window with a small oval window above. 2-light chancel with buttresses between; raised nave gable, gabled N aisle with 2-light E window and quatrefoil above, N elevation with 3 paired windows with buttresses between and a gabled porch to the W end with a 2-centred arched doorway. Similar windows to S nave elevation, with a 3-stage tower to the W end with angle buttresses, weathered bands to each stage, and paired, louvred belfry lights, with a corbelled band between the top of the buttresses beneath an ashlar parapet. Clock to north side of tower with gabled hood. 2-centre arched doorway with 3 orders to tower, with battened door and leaded glazing. INTERIOR: chancel with 3 sedilia with trefoil arches and crocketed gables in the S window, hoodmould to the E window, and corbelled shafts to the cusped arch-braced collar truss roof, moulded 2-centre chancel arch on painted corbels; 5-bay N arcade of round shafts with painted moulded stiff leaf capitals to moulded 2-centre arches; 2-centre W arch to organ loft. HISTORICAL NOTE: one of Bristol's 7 Commissioners' churches, and an advanced Ecclesiological design for its date. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 454).

Listing NGR: ST6388973787