Church of Saint Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Medieval Church.

Church of Saint Michael

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of Saint Michael, Anderson
OS grid reference
SY 880 975
Coordinates
50.77727, -2.17123
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Saint Michael is a former parish church that is now redundant. It has medieval origins, with a transept added in 1755 and the entire church largely rebuilt in 1882 by architect Walter J Fletcher from Wimborne. The church features a nave, chancel, south transept, and south porch. The walls of the nave are constructed of flint with stone banding, while the transept is made of flint and brick bonding, and the chancel is plastered. It has a chamfered plinth and tiled roofs with stone eaves courses, coped gables, and ornamental ridge tiles.

At the west end, there is a double stone bell cote with a gabled roof and trefoiled arches, supported by a shallow pilaster buttress on the west wall. The 19th-century porch, located at the angle of the nave and transept, features glazed timbering on a flint and stone base, topped with a stone slate roof. West of the porch is a 2-light square-headed window with trefoiled lights, and there is a 2-light traceried window in the transept. The chancel has single-light square-headed windows with trefoiled lights on the north and south walls, and a 2-light pointed arched traceried window in the east wall. The north wall of the nave includes two 2-light square-headed windows with trefoiled lights.

Inside, the chancel has a pine roof with cusped braced principals, while the nave and transept roofs are arch-braced pine. The church contains 19th-century pine pews and a pulpit, as well as a small octagonal font from the same period. An earlier font bowl is located on the floor of the transept, along with part of its base. On the south wall of the nave, there is a circular marble monument to Margaret Golpine, who died in 1803, signed by J Brine in 1807. The churchyard is enclosed by a brick wall, likely from the 19th century, featuring shallow piers and plain coping.

Local climate

Church of Saint Michael receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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