St Michaels Church Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1950. A Medieval Church tower.
St Michaels Church Tower
- WRENN ID
- south-mantel-hemlock
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1950
- Type
- Church tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St Michaels Church Tower, Tor Hill, Glastonbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 512 386
- Coordinates
- 51.14471, -2.69874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Michael's Church Tower, formerly known as St Michael's Chapel, is a Grade I listed structure that remains from the medieval church, with the tower dating from the late 13th century and featuring Perpendicular additions. The tower, which lacks an upper storey, was restored in 1804 and consists of three storeys. It has corner buttresses, stringcourses, and Perpendicular bell-openings topped with battlements. Below the parapet, there is a sculptured tablet of an eagle, and the west face includes seven canopied niches. The lower storey showcases Y-tracery, while the deeply moulded west door is adorned with carved reliefs. This tower is a prominent feature of the Somerset landscape and is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, currently under the care of the National Trust.
Local climate
St Michaels Church Tower receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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