Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. A C15 Church.

Church of St Michael and All Angels

WRENN ID
twelfth-pewter-acorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1955
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Longwick-Cum-Ilmer
OS grid reference
SP 793 029
Coordinates
51.71939, -0.85262
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Michael and All Angels is a parish church with a chancel dating from the 15th century, which was restored and extended to the east in the 19th century. The original nave was demolished and replaced by a small west tower in 1765. The tower is constructed of semi-dressed stone with flint galleting, while the chancel is made of flint with stone dressings. Both sections feature lead roofs. The tower consists of two stages and has a battlemented parapet, arched openings to the bell-chamber, and a two-light traceried window above it. All openings in the tower are adorned with Tudor hoodmoulds. The chancel includes diagonal buttresses, a chamfered plinth, and a moulded parapet, with a central carved gargoyle on each side that was reworked in the 19th century. It has two bays of three-light Perpendicular windows, with the southern windows restored around 1980 using plastic stone. The eastern window was completely restored in the 19th century.

Inside, there is a small arch leading to the tower, a blocked squint to the south, a piscina with a hollow-chamfered arch, and 19th-century sedilia and roof. Notable fittings include an early 16th-century screen that has been restored, featuring cusped open panels with spandrels carved with rosettes and lion-heads, now positioned against the west wall. There is also a 19th-century reredos, an octagonal font, stained glass, and some reset medieval floor tiles. The church contains marble wall tablets commemorating Bashewell Grubb from 1666, John Grubb from 1700, and Anne Grubb, a Huguenot exile, from 1721.

Local climate

Church of St Michael and All Angels sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% 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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