Description

MIDDLEWICH C.P. HIGH TOWN
SJ 76 NW
2/30 Church of St Michael and
All Angels

GV II*

Church, largely circa 1500 with a little C12 work inside and heavily
restored by Joseph Clarke 1857-60. Red sandstone with low-pitched
roofs. North-west tower, aisled nave with south porch, chancel with
chapels continuing from nave aisles. Crenellated 3-stage tower has
diagonal buttresses, west window to vestry with intersecting tracery
and panel-work, clock faces to west and east and 2-light bellringer's
chamber window to north and south, paired 2-light bell-openings under
single ogee hoodmoulds, quatrefoil band below parapet. 4-light
panel-traceried aisle and chapel windows, north door with
square-topped 4-light window above, 2-storey south porch with 3-light
window over doorway, 3-light clerestorey windows. Canted west end to
south aisle and east end to south chapel. 2 panel-traceried 4-light
windows to east end of south chapel, reticulated east window to
chancel flanked by 1-light window to each side, 5-light
panel-traceried window and basket-arched doorway in east end of north
chapel. Crenellation with crocketed pinnacles above buttresses.
Interior: Nave of 4 full and 1 narrow bays;the narrow bay is at east
end with late Norman pier and chancel respond in each arcade, the
other bays are Perpendicular with octagonal piers and double-chamfered
arches. Camber-beamed, panelled oak roof with carved bosses. Oak
trusses to south chapel roof. Chancel arch has continuous moulding
and no capitals. Chancel arcades have 2 4-centred arches south and 2
probably earlier arches north. North chapel has 1 basket-arched truss
on carved-head corbels. C16/C17 screen to chapels, restored, with
small carvings; screen overthrows now in tower vestry, one inscribed
ANNO DNI 1632: Peter Venables, the other, from Kinderton (north)
Chapel has many painted heraldic panels. Continental east window
glass, 1860; late C19/early C20 memorial glass, stalls and 1 carved
misericord in chancel (north side).

Listing NGR: SJ7039066250

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich at Wikipedia
• St Michael and All Angels, Middlewich official website
• Wikidata Q7594847

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)