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

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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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