Parish Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. Church.

Parish Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
hallowed-screen-frost
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
Church
Address
Parish Church of St Michael, Aston Sandford
OS grid reference
SP 756 078
Coordinates
51.76447, -0.90525
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Michael is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century, with 18th-century elements and restoration completed in 1878. It is constructed of rubblestone with dressings and features a weatherboarded bellcote topped with a copper roof, while the other roofs are covered with plain clay tiles. The church consists of a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave, and a west bellcote, along with a south porch.

The east wall of the chancel has three lancet windows, and the south wall features two windows separated by a weathered buttress, each containing one cusped light with hood moulds. The north wall has a modern door leading to the vestry and a single window with a cinquefoil light. The nave has two windows on the north wall with Y-tracery, while the south side has two cusped two-light windows with the porch situated between them. The north wall contains a doorway. The west wall has a blocked 13th-century window that is covered by a 15th-century buttress. The church has weathered buttresses at the northwest angle and on the south and north walls of the nave. The bellcote features louvred openings on each face and a pyramidal roof.

Inside, there is an aumbry on the north wall of the chancel. The chancel arch has 13th-century responds, but the arch itself was replaced by a timber arch in 1878. There are two slender shafts with rough caps, one of which has a grotesque head. Each inner shaft is terminated by corbels. The nave roof consists of collar-beam trusses, some of which are original. The stained glass includes a 13th-century depiction of a seated Christ with a box of nard in the east centre lancet of the chancel, and a notable window by Farrar Bell from 1969 located in the northeast of the nave.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Michael receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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