Description

SJ 99 NE LONGDENDALE WAR HILL

4/86 Church of
St. Michael and
1.11.66 All Angels

G.V. II*

Church. C15, the tower of c.1486. The interior, vestry and
clerestory by Shellard 1854. Hammer-dressed stone with
ashlar clerestory and graduated stone slate roof. Nave with
aisles, aisle chapels, south porch and west tower. Chancel
and north vestry. Perpendicular style. 6 bay aisle (and
chapel) with porch in bay 2. Weathered plinth and
castellated parapet. Each bay has a weathered buttress and
stepped 3-light window with cusped head and dripmould which
is terminated in carved heads. The porch has a 4-centred
arch opening, angled buttresses and castellation. 6-bay
clerestory with windows of a similar design. 4-stage tower
with angled weathered buttresses, stone bands,castellated
parapet and crocketed corner finials. 3-light west window
with Perpendicular tracery, clock face above and 2-light
belfry openings. Stair turret in one corner. 2-bay chancel
with 5-light transomed Perpendicular-style east window and
vestry to north. Interior: nave arcade on octagonal columns
with moulded heads. Braced tie-beam nave roof and arch-
braced chancel trusses which are supported on enriched
corbels. High Victorian alabaster pulpit by H. Hems (1885).
Former painted reredos above chancel arch. Chandelier
(1755). Stained glass. Barrel-shaped stone font.Monuments:
2 early C15 recumbent stone effigies in Staveleigh chapel
(south). Reginald Bretland (1703), semi-reclining figure on
supporting plinth with latin text. Also inscribed slab to
John Pycton, rector (1517) - defaced and no longer visible.
A well positioned church which retains much of its Medieval
character externally and dominates the skyline for miles
around.

Listing NGR: SJ9943195293

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Michael and All Angels Church, Mottram at Wikipedia
• St Michael and All Angels Church, Mottram official website
• Wikidata Q7594867

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)