Listing Text

SJ 59 SE BURTONWOOD C.P. CHAPEL LANE

1/7 Church of St Michael
and All Angels
(Formerly listed as Church of
9/8/1966 St Michael)

II

Church, founded 1606, rebuilt 1716, south aisle by E.J.Dod added 1939.
Stone-dressed brick with grey slate roof to nave, copper to aisle.
West tower, simple nave, south aisle, small apsidal chancel. 3-stage
tower has circular windows to lower stage, clock and round-arched
bell-openings, simple cornice with ball-finials and ornate
weather-vane, south porch against tower has keystone inscribed Built
1716, rebuilt [porch only] 1939. Nave of 5 bays has round-headed
Y-tracery windows to north. South aisle has similar windows with
2-light square-headed windows to clerestorey. 2 round-arched windows
to chancel.
Interior. Tuscan south arcade of 1939 by Dod: simple round
chancel-arch; hammer-beam nave trusses have iron rods for tension
members. C20 armigerous glass; fragments of C17 church are preserved
in apse.
When inspected (1984) the church was undergoing major repair and
strengthening, having been damaged by coal-mining subsidence.

Listing NGR: SJ5651992847