Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. A Medieval Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Michael
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Churchway, Stockland, EX14 9BR
- OS grid reference
- ST 244 045
- Coordinates
- 50.83532, -3.07409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a parish church primarily built in the 13th century, with a south transept added in the early 14th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with freestone dressings and has slate roofs.
The nave features decorated two-light windows, and the south doorway has double-chamfered jambs and a moulded arch without capitals, leading to a Victorian south porch. The chancel includes 15th-century flat-headed two-light south windows and a perpendicular four-light east window.
Notable elements include a fine 15th-century north aisle and northeast chapel, which have quatrefoil pierced and moulded battlements, gargoyles, large perpendicular three-light windows, and a moulded north doorway without capitals. There is a polygonal stair turret between the north aisle and northeast chapel, also with battlements. The early 14th-century south transept has a decorated two-light south window and a lancet on the east side with a cusped head.
The tall 15th-century west tower is built in three stages with set-back buttresses and battlements. It features two-light bell-openings, a four-light perpendicular west window above the west doorway, and an elaborate moulded arch with foliage and vine carving, but without capitals. A polygonal stair turret with battlements is located on the southeast corner of the tower.
Inside, the church has a perpendicular north arcade of five bays with four-centred arches; the two western bays are narrower and have two-centred arches. The north chapel and south transept also feature four-centred arches, all adorned with carved foliage capitals. The chancel arch and tower arch lack capitals. The church has a 15th-century octagonal font and Victorian furnishings and roofs.
Monuments within the church commemorate Amos Collard, who died in 1747, and William Keate, vicar of Stockland, who died in 1777.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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