Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1987. Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- broken-beam-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Stocks Hill, Silverstone
- OS grid reference
- SP 668 441
- Coordinates
- 52.09204, -1.02635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Michael is a church built in 1884 by J.P. St. Aubyn, funded by Sir Reginald Loder of Whittlebury Lodge. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings and features plain tile roofs. The church includes a chancel, organ chamber, vestry, nave, north and south aisles, and a south porch, all designed in the Decorated style.
The chancel has a two-bay layout with a three-light east window showcasing geometrical tracery, along with two-light windows to the south and north-east that have quatrefoil tracery in their heads. It also features a plinth, stone eaves, and a stone-coped east gable. The vestry and organ chamber contain a boiler house basement with a chamfered doorway to the east, which has a segmental hood, and a small chamfered rectangular window to the north. The vestry door has a chamfered stone surround and hood mould, a two-light window to the south with quatrefoil tracery in the head, and a one-light window to the west with a pointed trefoil head. The structure has a chamfered plinth, stone ends, a stone-coped north gable, and a brick end stack on a stone base.
The north aisle features a one-light east window with a pointed trefoil head, a two-light west window with reticulated tracery, and three-light windows to the south with straight heads and ogee tracery. The south aisle has similar windows to the north and a similar west window. The south porch includes a double hollow-chamfered doorway with a hood mould, a chamfered south door within a chamfered plinth, and a stone-coped gable.
The nave has a four-light west window with geometrical tracery and a timber-framed bell turret at the west end, which has a ribbed lead-covered base with a clock face to the south, two-light bell-openings, and a shingled spire. The nave and aisles share the same roof, featuring a plinth and stone-coped gables. All pointed windows are adorned with hood moulds.
Inside, the chancel features a stone reredos with a mosaic of the Crucifixion above the altar and an arch-braced collar-truss roof. The nave has a similar roof, with four-bay arcades supported by circular columns with moulded ironstone capitals and double-chamfered arches.
Local climate
Church of St Michael sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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