Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1984. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- graven-transept-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Constituency
- Honiton and Sidmouth MP: Richard Foord (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Swan Hill Road, Colyford
- OS grid reference
- SY 248 924
- Coordinates
- 50.72677, -3.06588
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a small church built between 1888 and 1889 in the Arts and Crafts style. It is constructed from stone rubble with freestone dressings and features a tiled roof. The layout includes a nave and chancel combined, a south transept, a south-west porch, and a north vestry. A bellcote is situated over the west gable, supported by corbelled buttresses with pinnacles, short tented gablets, and a small spirelet. There is a stringcourse below the window cill level on a battered plinth, with lancet and grouped lancet windows. The church has battered buttresses with set offs, and a central buttress at the west end features a gablet between lancets, topped by a small oval window in the gable. A lean-to vestibule spans the west end, with a gabled porch on the south side.
Inside, the church has red and yellow brick with stone dressings, and a timber vaulted roof supported by arched braces on stone corbels. There is a three-bay arcade in the vestibule at the west end and a two-bay arcade in the south transept. A squint with cusped arches is also present. The church retains complete furnishings, including a timber chancel screen, a carved wooden reredos with relief based on Bartolommeo's "The Entombment," a pulpit, benches, and a font. St Michael's serves as a chapel of ease, built by Mrs Scarbrough in memory of her father, Admiral Impey.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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