Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A Victorian Parish church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-flagstone-crimson
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Michael, East Anstey
- OS grid reference
- SS 867 265
- Coordinates
- 51.0269, -3.61655
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Michael is a parish church located in East Anstey, with a 15th-century tower and south porch, while the rest of the structure was rebuilt in 1871 by Ashworth. The building is made of unrendered stone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof with gable ends. The layout includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and south porch.
The 15th-century west tower has two stages, an embattled parapet, diagonal buttresses, and a northeast stair turret. Each face of the tower has cusped headed 2-light bell-openings with slate louvres. There is a Perpendicular style 3-light west window with replaced mullions from the 19th century, situated above a pointed arched doorway with a double ogee moulded surround. To the left of the south porch, which has a gabled slate roof, is a late Perpendicular straight-headed window with three 4-centred arched lights. The inner doorway of the porch has a chamfered surround. The remaining windows are in a 19th-century Perpendicular style, including a 3-light window to the right of the porch, a 2-light window on the south side, and a 3-light window at the east end of the chancel. The north side of the nave is blind.
Inside, there is an 18th-century pulpit with panelled sides and a timber base, along with 18th-century communion rails featuring barley sugar balusters. The church also has a 19th-century font, arch-braced roofs, a chancel arch, and tiled floors, with mid-20th-century nave furniture. A wall tablet by Kendall of Exeter on the north wall of the chancel commemorates Rev. John Bond, who died in 1807.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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