Listing Text

In the entry for

URMSTON CHURCH ROAD
(South side)
4/23
Church of St Michael

The address shall be
amended to read

URMSTON CHURCH ROAD
(Flixton) (South side)
Church of St Michael

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URMSTON CHURCH ROAD
SJ 79 SW
(south side)
(SJ 7493 NE)
4/23 Church of
29/6/66 St. Michael
G.V. II*
Church. Part of chancel C15, nave and aisles 1756, chancel
rebuilt 1815, tower rebuilt and restored in 1731, 1824 and
1888, vestry C19. Ashlar with slate roof. Nave and chancel
under continuous roof, pitched roofs to aisles and a central
west tower. 5-bay south aisle and 3-bay north aisle with
projecting plinth, round-arched windows with impost
capitals and keystones, rusticated quoin strips and eaves
cornice. South porch with gable pediment on attached
columns. The chancel has a 3-light east window with cusped
Y-tracery and weathered diagonal buttresses, both features
which are repeated in the C19 vestry. Castellated 3-stage
tower with round-arched west door, 3-light west window,
broken pediment above 1731 plaque, 3-light round-arched
belfry openings with hoodmoulds and keystones and finials
above the castellations. Interior: 3-bay nave arcade with
round arches on Tuscan columns. King-post roof trusses.
Carved stone font, pulpit and reredos. Brass plaque to
Richard Radcliffe of 1602, also early C19 wall plaques.
Stained glass. Timber pews. R. Richards, Old Cheshire
Churches, 1947.

Listing NGR: SJ7472993965