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Latitude: 53.5477 / 53°32'51"N
Longitude: -2.1906 / 2°11'26"W
OS Eastings: 387467
OS Northings: 405689
OS Grid: SD874056
Mapcode National: GBR FW4D.JZ
Mapcode Global: WHB99.B333
Plus Code: 9C5VGRX5+3Q
Entry Name: Church of St Michael
Listing Date: 19 September 1969
Last Amended: 23 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1068468
English Heritage Legacy ID: 213467
ID on this website: 101068468
Location: St Michael's Church, Middleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, M24
County: Rochdale
Electoral Ward/Division: North Middleton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Middleton (Rochdale)
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Tonge-cum-Alkrington St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
SD 80 NE
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MIDDLETON
TOWNLEY STREET (east side)
Church of St Michael
(formerly listed as St Michael's and All Angels, Tonge)
19/9/69
II
Church. 1902 with side chapel added in 1926 and tower in 1930. By Austin and Paley. Snecked stone with clay tile roof. Nave with clerestory and aisles, chancel flanked by side chapel, vestry and organ chamber; virtually free standing tower to west of north aisle.
Gothic Revival in a Perpendicular style. Four-bay nave and aisle with weathered buttresses. Two, three and four-light flat-headed aisle windows and three-light round-arched clerestory windows with Perpendicular tracery. Coped gables with kneelers and cross finials. Transversely roofed organ chamber and vestry, both gabled. Five-light west and east windows the former above a canted baptistry.
The four-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, an octagonal corner stair turret, bands separating each stage, a door below chequer-patterned stonework, a four-light window, clock-faces on the third stage, three-light belfry openings and a castellated parapet above a blind mouchette frieze.
Interior: rock-faced stone. Double-chamfered arches on octagonal nave arcade columns. Tie-beam and collar roof trusses. Carved stone and timber fittings. Stained glass.
The church stands on an elevated site.
Listing NGR: SD8746705689
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