Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
waiting-joist-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 December 1994
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Two Mile Hill Road, BS15 1BA
OS grid reference
ST 638 737
Coordinates
51.46189, -2.52118
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a church built in 1848, with a mid-19th century north aisle, designed by E Gabriel. It is constructed of pennant rubble with limestone dressings and has a slate roof. The building features a nave, a later north aisle, a chancel, a northwest porch, and a west tower, all in the Gothic Revival style.

The exterior of the chancel includes angle buttresses and a small, two-centred arched three-light window with an oval window above it. The chancel has a two-light window with buttresses between, while the raised nave gable and gabled north aisle feature a two-light east window and a quatrefoil above. The north elevation has three paired windows with buttresses between and a gabled porch at the west end with a two-centred arched doorway. The south nave elevation has similar windows, and the west tower has angle buttresses, weathered bands at each stage, and paired louvred belfry lights, topped with a corbelled band beneath an ashlar parapet. A clock is located on the north side of the tower, which also features a gabled hood. The tower's doorway is two-centred arched with three orders, and it has a battened door and leaded glazing.

Inside, the chancel contains three sedilia with trefoil arches and crocketed gables in the south window, a hoodmould over the east window, and corbelled shafts supporting the cusped arch-braced collar truss roof. The moulded two-centre chancel arch rests on painted corbels. The north arcade has five bays with round shafts and painted moulded stiff leaf capitals supporting moulded two-centre arches, while there is a two-centre west arch leading to the organ loft.

Historically, this church is one of Bristol's seven Commissioners' churches and represents an advanced Ecclesiological design for its time.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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