Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1954. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- western-pillar-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1954
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, South Lane, Clanfield, East Hampshire
- OS grid reference
- SU 732 159
- Coordinates
- 50.93831, -0.95957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is a parish church that dates from the late 12th century or early 13th century, featuring an Early English chancel, nave, and western tower. The south transept was added in the 14th century, and a north porch was constructed in the 19th century. The church is built with flint walls, some of which are plastered in the chancel, and it has stone quoins, stepped buttresses on the chancel, and brick quoins on the upper part of the tower. The roof is covered with plain tiles.
The tower is plain, topped with a low crenellated parapet and a small pyramid roof, and it has small openings. A wide plain doorway, now filled, was once the entrance to the church. The porch features a flint and stone wall with a pierced wooden frame above, supporting a gabled roof with decorative bargeboards. Most windows are tall lancets; the south side of the nave has a coupled light with a plate tracery trefoil head, while the north side features a coupled light in the Decorated style with reticulated tracery. The south window of the transept also has reticulated tracery, and the chancel contains a low-side window beneath a filled lancet, as well as a restored four-light east window in the Geometrical style.
Inside, the windows have deep splays, and there is a cill band in the chancel. The piscina has double trefoil heads, and there is an aumbry cupboard. The arch leading to the transept features half-columns that are octagonal in shape, and an octagonal font from the 15th century is located there. The church also contains wall monuments, including a kneeling figure within a Corinthian framework for Richard Ball, who died in 1632, along with two other classical monuments from 1720 and 1829, and smaller monuments from 1819 and 1933.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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