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Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels

A Grade II Listed Building in West Bromwich, Sandwell

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5188 / 52°31'7"N

Longitude: -1.9949 / 1°59'41"W

OS Eastings: 400444

OS Northings: 291209

OS Grid: SP004912

Mapcode National: GBR 2BT.FZ

Mapcode Global: VH9YN.CYRH

Plus Code: 9C4WG294+G3

Entry Name: Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels

Listing Date: 1 August 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1342667

English Heritage Legacy ID: 219313

ID on this website: 101342667

Location: West Bromwich, Sandwell, West Midlands, B70

County: Sandwell

Electoral Ward/Division: West Bromwich Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: West Bromwich

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands

Church of England Parish: West Bromwich St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


SP SANDWELL MB HIGH STREET/ST MICHAEL STREET

West Bromwich 14/102 Church of St Michael and the Holy Angels 1.8.74 II

Roman Catholic Church. 1875 - 7 by Dunn and Hansom, with tower and spire added 1911 by Edmund Kirby. Red brick with some stone dressings and tile roof. The chancel is at the south-west end, but for purposes of description the orientation is assumed to be conventional. Comprises a north-west tower, a nave with clerestory and continuous chancel, north and south aisles, and north and south chapels. The west wall has triple stepped lancets with stone heads and sills, and a moulded pointed doorway with angle shafts. The tower has clasping buttresses to the lower stage, angle buttresses above, and corner pinnacles. The spire is of stone. The bell openings are each of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head. The north doorway is moulded and pointed. The aisles are of five bays, with alternate paired lancets and round windows. The clerestory has single lancets. The transeptal chapels each have two lancets with a round window above. At the east end is a rose window. Interior: three-bay nave arcades with pointed moulded brick arches springing from painted round columns with moulded capitals. The roof has scissor-braced rafters. West organ gallery. The chancel is divided from the nave by an arch-braced truss carried on slim engaged shafts. The chancel roof is boarded. East window contains glass of late C19 date. (VCH, p 61).

Listing NGR: SP0044491209

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