List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
List entry Number: 1138795
Location
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire East | Unitary Authority | Middlewich |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 05-Dec-1986
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 56361
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
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
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National Grid Reference: SJ 70390 66250
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