Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1967. Church.

Church of St Michael

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 March 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Lamplugh, Copeland
OS grid reference
NY 088 207
Coordinates
54.57415, -3.41143
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church built in 1870, designed by William Butterfield. It features coursed, squared rubble on a chamfered plinth and has stepped buttressing. The roofs are made of graduated slate with stone copings and kneelers, and there is a bellcote at the west end with crosses at the apex to the east. The church consists of an aisle-less nave and chancel, with a vestry on the south side. The nave has four bays and includes a plank inner door with a pointed head leading to a gabled south porch. The windows are designed in the Perpendicular style; the vestry door and a cusped, single-light window are original Perpendicular features that have been reused. Additionally, three gargoyles are positioned over the east window, and there is a blocked doorway on the north side of the chancel, which has been infilled with a late 18th-century Dickinson memorial.

Inside, the nave features scissor-beam trusses, and there are wide, pointed arches leading to the chancel and vestry, with a traceried, four-centred opening above the chancel arch. The church contains a 19th-century octagonal wooden pulpit in the northeast corner of the nave and a 19th-century octagonal stone font at the west end. A mid-17th-century tomb slab with an extensive but weathered inscription is set against the west wall of the vestry, and early 18th-century pedimented marble memorials are located on the west wall of the nave. The stained glass is by Kempe and Tower.

Local climate

Church of St Michael sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,510 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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