Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1973. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- over-rotunda-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1973
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Stratton Terrace, Falmouth
- OS grid reference
- SW 802 337
- Coordinates
- 50.16262, -5.07752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a parish church located in Falmouth, built in 1827 by R Crout. It features coursed rubble construction with four-centred arches and inverted relieving arches beneath the sills. The church has a three-bay embattled front with four embattled octagonal turrets and a short corbelled central turret above a taller parapet. The roof is hipped and made of dry Delabole slate.
The church is designed in a simple Commissioners' style with Tudor Gothic elements. Its plan includes a hall church with a straight gallery at the rear southwest end and a narrower entrance porch and stair hall beyond. The original windows are small-paned with traceried heads, with two at the front, three on each side, and smaller ones on the rear wing, except for the central two-light stone ritual window on the east side. The porch has a doorway on its left with original panelled doors. The principal west gable features small embattled corner turrets and a central open bellcote.
Inside, the church is very simple, with an open-well staircase leading to the gallery, which has a panelled front supported by Tuscan columns. The interior fittings are from the 20th century.
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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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