Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- waning-slate-tide
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Church Street, St. Cuthbert Out
- OS grid reference
- ST 575 446
- Coordinates
- 51.19903, -2.60942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Michael is an Anglican parish church with Norman origins, incorporating work from the 14th century, a substantial rebuild in the 15th century, and a restoration in 1872 which included a rebuilt chancel and an added organ chamber. The church is constructed of coursed rubble and ashlar stone, with lead sheeting roofs and coped verge details. It is primarily of Perpendicular style, comprising a nave, chancel, north aisle, north organ chamber, south porch, and a west tower.
The embattled three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, and two-light bell chamber windows with Somerset tracery and stone grilles. It is topped by an embattled stair turret, a clock, a west window, and a west door. The nave is also embattled with three bays, featuring niches, gargoyles, pinnacles, and two-light windows; two have square heads, and one is pointed. The south porch has a parapet, coping, diagonal buttresses, gargoyles, a shafted outer door opening, and a benched interior with a flagstone floor and a 19th-century roof supported by corbels carved as heads. The north aisle is similarly embattled, with buttresses, pinnacles, and three-light pointed-head windows, as well as a doorway. The chancel is three bays wide, with reset Decorated and Perpendicular windows, including a three-light east window. The organ chamber has a pierced parapet in Perpendicular style.
The interior has plastered walls and a flagstone floor. The roofs are from the 1872 restoration, with carvings of angels as corbels in the nave and aisle. A three-bay arcade separates the nave and aisle, featuring piers of four-hollow section. There are chamfered chancel and tower arches, potentially dating back before the 15th century. The arches in the organ chamber are from 1872. Norman dragon heads have been reset in the chancel above a south window. A stone pulpit dated 1621 features rosettes, fleur-de-lis, and symbols of the Trinity. The octagonal font has a quatrefoil on each face. A piscina is also in Perpendicular style. Later 19th-century furnishings include pews, choir stalls, altar rails, an organ, a reredos, and a screen. Iron candelabrae are also present. Five late 18th- to early 19th-century monuments are located under the tower, along with an elaborate mid-19th-century monument over the north door. A window south of the nave incorporates reset medieval glass fragments, and eight later 19th-century stained glass windows are also present.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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