Church Of St Michael

SD 4979 BEETHAM CHURCH STREET (off North side) Beetham

9/39 Church of St Michael

12.2.62

G.V. I

Church. Probably C12; South aisle added c.1200, chancel extended to East C13, Beetham Chapel added C14, North aisle added and South aisle widened C15, top stage of Tower added C16. Restored and south porch added 1873-74 (R.C.H.M.). Rubble walls, mainly limestone, with sandstone dressings; lead roofs. West Tower; Nave with aisles, Chancel, North Vestry and South Chapel incorporated in rectangular plan. 2-stage battlemented Tower with crocketed corner pinnacles. C14 doorway with 2-centred arch in West wall and window above with 2 trefoiled ogee lights in 2-centred head with moulded label; loop lights to all but East side; bell-chamber, slightly corbelled out, has 3-light C16 windows with elliptical-headed lights under moulded labels; C20 weathervane. East wall has late C19 5-light central window. 3-light C15 window to North aisle with cinquefoiled lights in 4-centred head with moulded label (most other C15 windows similar). 3-light C15 window in South aisle has cinque-foiled lights with vertical tracery in 4-centred head with moulded label. Stone gabled porch: doorway with pointed-arched head and hoodmould; inserted door to right with memorial to Richd Hadwin d.1779 over; 3 3-light C15 windows and one 2-light window c.1400 to left of it and one C14 window and 2 c.1400 to right. West wall has 3-light C15 window to left of Tower and 2-light late C14 window,with trefoiled ogee lights with moulded label,to right. North side has doorway with pointed-arched head and 5 3-light C15 windows. Interior has early C16 9-bay roof with cambered and chamfered tie beams, partly restored to Chancel and Nave; late C15 or early C16 12-bay pent roof to North aisle with moulded principals. In Beetham Chapel are remnants of late medieval heraldic glass. Other glass mainly C19 and C20,notably East window by Clayton Bell to William Hutton died 1881; early C20 martyrs' window in North aisle with Charles I flanked by St Oswald and St Alban; 4th window from East in South aisle by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster and London. This window also has a black stone memorial urn dated 1811. See R.C.H.M. pp.101-103 and plate 97.

Listing NGR: SD4960879569