Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1963. Church.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
rusted-hinge-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1963
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Michael, Burrowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 358 304
Coordinates
51.06974, -2.91765
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church built between 1836 and 1838 by Richard Carver, with a chancel arch added in 1888. It features squared and coursed blue lias with Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, and coped verges. The church has a porch with flanking vestries at the liturgical west end, a bell-cote, a four-bay aisleless nave, a north-east organ bay, a south-east chapel, and a chancel. The west end has a gabled bell-cote with a single bell and a rose window, along with a single-storey lean-to roofed porch and flanking vestries. The entrance has clasping buttresses and a projecting gabled centre, with a depressed Tudor arch head doorway featuring double doors. The south front has five lancet windows between stepped buttresses, while the east window consists of three lancets. The north front also has five lancet windows between stepped buttresses.

Inside, the church is rendered, with pointed and chamfered chancel arches and arches between the nave and chapels, which are in two orders. There is a wooden arch with pierced decorative spandrels between the chapels and chancel. The chancel has a ribbed and boarded wagon roof, while the nave features a scissor truss roof with a ridge pole. The interior includes a stained pine dado, pews, and a west end gallery. The altar rails are supported by paired black marble columns, and the sanctuary is adorned with Minton tiles. A Beer stone pulpit with steps is dated 1890, and a lectern is dated 1889. The font is in the Perpendicular style, and there is a 17th-century joint stool in the sanctuary. The church also features fine coeval gothic style lamp brackets, which are painted and gilded cast iron, with two in the chancel and five in the nave. A painted hollow petal statuette of St Michael, approximately 750 mm high, is located in the chancel and dates from around 1900. The parsonage to the south, which is not included in the listing, was also designed by Richard Carver.

Local climate

Church of St Michael receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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