Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Michael and All Angels
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-wicket-dale
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Mitcheldean
- OS grid reference
- SO 671 174
- Coordinates
- 51.85449, -2.47862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church with a history spanning the 14th, 15th, and 18th centuries, and a restoration in 1875. The tower is constructed of well-squared grey stone, while the south aisle and porch are of squared, coursed red stone, with cream ashlar window surrounds and grey dressings to the porch. The chancel uses less well-squared grey and red stone with larger quoins, and all are roofed with tiles, except for the tower which has stone slates. The church comprises a nave, south aisle, west tower, south porch, chancel, and organ chamber.
The west tower has two stages and a plain plinth. It features diagonally-set buttresses, a blocked west door with a four-centred arch, and above this, the arms of Free Miners, renewed in 1982, and a two-light Perpendicular window with no hoodmould. A single-light window with stone louvres is in the upper stage. The tower is topped with a plain parapet, two plain gargoyles at the corners, and a pyramid roof with an access dormer on the east. A half-octagonal stair turret is visible below the parapet. The south aisle has a plain plinth and one renewed two-light window with trefoil heads and a trefoil over, but no hoodmould. A round-headed doorway with a wrought-iron gate leads to the porch, which has projecting kneelers and gable copings, as does the aisle. The chancel plinth is higher than the aisle's, featuring a south window with two lancets. The nave and chancel roofs are continuous, with a gabled parapet to the chancel. The north chancel window is a two-light window with a quatrefoil over, but no hoodmould.
Inside, the two-and-a-half bay nave arcade consists of C15 octagonal piers with plain, moulded caps and chamfered bases. The south aisle has collar trusses with short king-posts, while the nave features an exposed collar rafter roof with angle struts. The chancel roof is similar, but without the struts. The walls are plastered and some stone paving remains. A small amount of C15 glass is present in the head of the north chancel window. An octagonal C15 font is topped with quatrefoil panelling and shields carved on the tapered stem. The polygonal stone pulpit, likely dating from 1875, is carved with symbols of the four evangelists. A Pyrke brass is set into the chancel floor (dated 1609), and a fine 1715 Pyrke memorial is on the south chancel wall, alongside other late 18th and 19th century wall monuments. The south aisle and porch were rebuilt in 1749, and the church restored in 1875, a period when the organ chamber was probably added.
Local climate
Church of St Michael and All Angels receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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