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St Michael's Church, Muncaster

St Michael's Church is in the grounds of Muncaster Castle, near Ravenglass, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of St Paul, Irton, St John the Baptist, Waberthwaite, and St Catherine, Boot. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. History There has been a church on the site since 1140. The present church dates from the 16th century. There have been later additions and alterations, including a restoration and addition of a north transept in 1874 by Anthony Salvin. Salvin also restored the nearby Muncaster Castle for the Barons Muncaster. Repairs and a renovation were carried out for the 2000 millennium. Architecture The church is constructed in stone rubble. The roofs are in slate with stone ridges and eaves. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a three-bay chancel, a north transept, and a south porch. There is a gabled double bellcote on the west end of the nave, and a Sanctus bellcote on its east end. The parapets of the nave and chancel are battlemented. There are blocked doorways on the north side of the nave, and on the south side of the chancel. The windows in the nave are mullioned, those in the chancel are in Perpendicular style, and those in the transept are Decorated. Inside the church is a king post roof. There are two fonts, one probably dating from the 17th century with a square plan, and another dated 1860, consisting of an octagonal bowl on marble columns. The stained glass in the east and west windows, dating from about 1870, are by Hardman. Elsewhere are windows from the 1880s designed by Henry Holiday for Powell's. A rare ‘Doom’ window shows St. Michael and Christ at the Last Judgement whilst the side windows depict the archangels Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Gabriel. Also in the church are monuments to the Pennington family of Muncaster Castle. The single-manual pipe organ was built in 1883 by Forster and Andrews. External features The east gateway to the churchyard is listed at Grade II. It probably dates from the 19th century, it is constructed in sandstone, and it rises to form a gable over the entrance. In the churchyard to the south of the church is a high cross, parts of which date from the Anglo-Saxon era, consisting of a base and a shaft with carved decoration. Set into the same modern base is a circular cross-head. The high cross is a scheduled monument. See also Grade I listed churches in Cumbria Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria Listed buildings in Muncaster List of church restorations and alterations by Anthony Salvin References External links Photographs from Visit Cumbria
St Michael's Church, North Rode

St Michael's Church is in Church Lane, North Rode, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with those of St Mary the Virgin, Bosley, St Saviour, Wildboarclough, and St Michael, Wincle. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as "a charming estate church". History St Michael's was built in 1845–46, and designed by Charles and James Trubshaw. As of 2026 ST Michael's church was art risk of closure due to the low number of volunteers needed to run the church. Architecture Exterior The church is constructed in rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and has a tiled roof. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a south porch, a two-bay chancel with a vestry to the northeast, and a west tower. The tower has angle buttresses and a plain parapet. In the angle between the tower and the nave on the north side is a stair turret which rises above the height of the tower, and contains round-headed casement windows. On the west side of the tower is a doorway with a semicircular head in a loosely Romanesque style, which is decorated with spaced chevron motifs. Above the door is a two-light window in loosely Early English style, with a circular clock face above that. On each side of the top stage are three lancet bell openings. The south porch has a loosely Romanesque doorway, above which is a niche containing a statue of Saint Michael. The windows along the sides of the church are in Early English style. Interior Inside the church, the nave has a hammerbeam roof. Both the nave and the chancel are floored with encaustic tiles. In the church are four brass corona chandeliers. The font is decorated with encaustic tiles. In the church are memorials to the Daintry and Tootal Broadhurst families. The stained glass is described as being "delightfully bad". See also Listed buildings in North Rode References
St Michael's Church, Pennington

St Michael's Church is in the village of Pennington, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Furness, the archdeaconry of Westmorland and Furness, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is united with those of Holy Trinity, Bardsea, and St Peter, Lindal and Marton. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The church stands on an ancient site, but the oldest parts of the present church are the nave and the tower that were built in 1826–27. In 1917 the Lancaster architect Henry Paley of Austin and Paley prepared plans for a complete rebuilding of the church, but this was considered to be too expensive. Further plans were made that involved adding a polygonal chancel, removing the ceiling, opening the tower arch, inserting new windows, reseating the church, and carrying out a general restoration of the existing building. This was completed for the church's centenary at a cost of £5,708 (equivalent to £300,000 in 2025). In 1934 the same architect added an organ chamber and a new aisle at a cost of £666. Architecture St Michael's is constructed in stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a south porch, an apsidal chancel, a south organ chamber with an aisle, and a west tower. The tower has diagonal buttresses, a two-light west window, straight-headed bell openings, and an embattled parapet. The nave windows have two-lights and straight heads, and contain Decorated tracery. The east window has five lights, and the window in the organ chamber has three lights. Inset into the wall of the inner entrance to the church is a Norman tympanum carved with runes, and the image of Christ and a cross. There are also damaged Norman capitals built into the porch, and fragments of carved stones elsewhere inside the church. The octagonal font is medieval and is tulip-shaped. All the stained glass was made by Powell. The two-manual pipe organ was made by Jardine and Company of Manchester. External features In the churchyard is a sundial listed at Grade II. It is dated 1680 and consists of an octagonal post on a square base with a square cap. See also Listed buildings in Pennington, Cumbria List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44) References Bibliography External links Photographs from the Furness Family History Society
St Michael's Church, Shotwick

St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church of Shotwick, Cheshire, England. It a Grade I listed building. It has a Norman doorway but most of the church is Gothic. Its furniture includes some ancient items. In the churchyard are several structures that are Grade II listed. The church is an active parish church in the Diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Wirral South. Its benefice is combined with that of St Nicholas, Burton. History A church was in existence at the time of the Domesday Book and was largely rebuilt in the 14th century. Restorations were carried out in 1851 and in the 1970s. The parish registers date from 1698. Architecture Exterior The church is built of New Red Sandstone. The chancel and porch are roofed with Welsh slate and the rest of the roof is covered in purple tiles. The south doorway is Norman, decorated with chevrons but rather obscured by a porch of later date. The porch contains stone benches and on its walls are knife-sharpening slots. The tower is Perpendicular in style, and dates from around 1500. The plan of the church consists of a tower at the west end in line with a nave of four bays and a chancel of three bays. There is a north aisle with a chapel at the west end extending as far as the chancel. Interior All the pews are box pews and are the oldest in Wirral; at one time their doors were fitted with locks and keys. In the north aisle is a canopied churchwardens' pew dated 1709 and a three-decker pulpit. The altar rails date from the late 17th or early 18th century and the lectern from the late 18th century. It has been said that much of this wooden furniture was moved from a church in Chester in 1812. Some of the windows contain 14th-century stained glass. The brass chandelier dates from the late 18th century. The tower has a ring of six bells. William Clibury of Wellington, Shropshire, cast the tenor bell in 1616 and the fifth bell in 1621. John Taylor & Co of Loughborough cast the other four bells including the treble in 1938. External features In the churchyard the gates, gatepiers and churchyard wall along north side of Shotwick Lane are Grade II listed structures. Also listed Grade II are the red sandstone sundial consisting of a tall bulbous baluster on square base dated 1720, and the tombchests of James Phillips, John Nevett Bennett, Rev M. Reay and four children, Robert and Martha Ellison, William Briscoe (died 1704) and others, and William Briscoe (died 1723) and others. In the northwest part of the churchyard are the war graves of nine Royal Air Force officers of World War I. See also Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester Grade I listed churches in Cheshire Norman architecture in Cheshire Listed buildings in Shotwick References Further reading Budden, Charles W (1922). Rambles round the old churches of Wirral. Liverpool: Edward Howell Ltd. External links Medieval stained glass information from CVMA Photographs of the church from Geograph
St Michael's Church, St Michael's on Wyre

St Michael's Church is an Anglican church in the village of St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, England. It is a typical late Medieval church and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Lancaster. History St Michael's on Wyre is one of seven ancient parishes of the hundred of Amounderness. It was the third largest, with an area of 18,888 acres (76.44 km2; 29.51 sq mi). The Domesday Book of 1086 lists three churches in Amounderness, one of which was probably St Michael's. There has certainly been a church on the site from at least the 13th century, elements of which remain in the current building. The present church was possibly built in the 15th century and alterations were made in the 17th century. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 17 April 1967. The Grade I listing is for buildings "exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important". Architecture The church is typical of late Medieval churches of northern England and is constructed of sandstone ashlar and rubble. The plan consists of a tower at the west end, a chancel and nave under a continuous roof and a chapel to the north. The tower is said to date from 1549. It is broad and low with a west window and has three stages, the upper of which (added later) is inset. The date 1611 and the coat of arms and initials of Henry Butler are carved into the parapet. The tower's plan is trapezoidal and it has angled buttresses. The chancel and nave are under a continuous roof of blue slate. There is an aisle to the south under a separate gabled slate roof, with an embattled parapet and buttresses. The aisle is separated from the chancel by two wide arches. There is a porch to the south of the south aisle. A shorter aisle lies to the north of the church, west of the Butler Chapel. The Butler Chapel to the north of the church dates from 1480 and was founded as a chantry of St Katharine. It was repaired in 1797 and reseated and restored in 1854. It has a pitched roof with an embattled parapet which dates from the 19th century. Its windows have flat heads with cinquefoil tops and upper mouchettes. The tower houses a ring of three bells, hung in a timber frame. The treble was cast in 1458 and given to the church by a French lady named Catherine de Bernieules, Lady of Neufchatel. It is inscribed with Gothic script. The second bell was cast in 1663 by Geoffrey Scott of Wigan. The third dates from 1742 and was cast by Abel Rudhall of Gloucestershire. See also Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire Listed buildings in Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre References Footnotes Bibliography
St Michael's Church, Torpenhow

St Michael's Church is in the civil parish of Blennerhasset and Torpenhow, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Derwent, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. History The church dates from the early 12th century, with extensions later in that century and in the 13th century, alterations in the 15th and 17th centuries, and restorations in 1882 and 1913. It is thought that some of the stone used in the building came from the Roman fort at Old Carlisle. The architect carrying out the 1913 restoration said that he found "distinct traces of a Saxon building". Architecture Structure The church is built in sandstone with a roof of green slate. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave with north and south aisles and a north transept and a south porch, and a three-bay chancel. At the west end is an open bellcote. Within the porch is a blocked doorway, the present door having a Tudor-style surround. In the west wall is another blocked doorway, over which is a two-light window dating from the 15th century. Much of the architecture is Norman. The Norman features include round-headed windows in the north wall of the chancel, with similar, but blocked, windows in the south and east walls; the south doorway; and, inside the church, the arcades and the chancel arch. The chancel arch is carved with demon-like figures on the north side, and human and animals on the south side. In the south porch is a medieval gravestone; other similar gravestones have been used as lintels for the west window and for blocking the west door. The south aisle has a battlemented parapet. The ceiling of the nave was given to the church in 1689 by Thomas, the brother of the essayist Joseph Addison, and is thought to have come from the hall of a London Livery Company; it is painted with cupids and garlands. The north transept has an open timber roof dated 1614. The panelled ceiling in the chancel dates from the 19th or 20th century. Fittings and furniture The font has a carved Norman bowl on a later stem. In the south wall is a recess which probably formerly contained a medieval tomb effigy that is now in the south porch. In the east wall is an aumbry, and a piscina with a motif of the sun. A piscina with a possible Roman carving is close by. The pulpit is simple and Jacobean in style. Several carvings may reference Knights Templar origins. The panelled choir stalls date from 1882, while all the other furnishings are 20th century. The stained glass includes windows by Clayton and Bell. See also Grade I listed churches in Cumbria Listed buildings in Blennerhasset and Torpenhow References
St Michael's Church, Weeton

St Michael's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Weeton, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn. It was built in 1843 and enlarged in 1846. It has been designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage. History St Michael's Church was built in 1843 on land granted by the 13th Earl of Derby. It became a parish church in 1846. In 1852, architect E. H. Shellard enlarged the west end of the church. St Michael's was designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage in 1986. The Grade II listing is for buildings that are "nationally important and of special interest". Architecture St Michael's is constructed in the Early English style, of red brick with stone dressings. The roof is slate. At the west end of the building there is a bellcote with a miniature spire. The plan consists of a nave and a chancel. To the north of the nave is a porch at the main entrance, and to the south of the chancel is a vestry. There are coupled lancet windows, and a triple lancet window in the west wall. Internally, the roof's timber structure includes strutted king posts and arched braces. The nave has four bays and the chancel one. The church furniture includes a wooden pulpit, a matching minister's desk and original wooden pews Which have doors. Memorials include a brass tablet dedicated to Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, erected "by the servants employed on his North Lancashire Estates 1893". There is a small square organ by T. and C. Lane of Earl Shilton, Leicestershire. Churchyard The graveyard contains the war graves of two British Army soldiers of World War I, and an airman of World War II. See also Listed buildings in Weeton-with-Preese List of works by E. H. Shellard References Footnotes Sources Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1912), "Townships — Weeton-with-Preese", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7, retrieved 2 April 2011 Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-12667-0
St Michael's Church, Winterbourne

St Michael the Archangel Church or simply St Michael's Church is an Anglican parish church located in Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire, on the northern fringe of Bristol. It was built in the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. It was partially rebuilt in 1843-7 and underwent alterations in 1877-80. In 1851 it could seat a congregation of 320. The Church is located to the west of Winterbourne, largely surrounded by fields and woodland, though a number of cottages flank it. Despite its rather isolated location its prominent spire is clearly visible for miles around. Behind the Church's most recent graveyard is the Monks Pool nature reserve and the Bradley Brook. Winterbourne Court, a 14th-century tithe barn, stands immediately adjacent to the Church. In the churchyard's north-west corner is the war grave of a Devonshire Regiment soldier of World War II. St Michael's is part of the Fromeside Partnership, an association between the local ecclesiastical parishes of Coalpit Heath, Frampton Cotterell, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down. References External links St Michael's official website (Link Broken) Guide to St Michael's Church
St Michael's Hospital, Warwick

St Michael's Hospital is a National Health Service psychiatric hospital situated in Warwick, Warwickshire, England run by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. History The hospital was established in 1995, largely to replace the outdated Central Hospital in the nearby village of Hatton. The hospital was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 8 November 1996. A new psychotherapy unit known as The Pines (the wards are generally named after trees) opened at the hospital in April 2004. Services There is an Education Centre Library and tennis court on site. Gallery See also List of hospitals in England References External links Official site
St Michael's Hospital, Hayle

St Michael's Hospital is a small hospital located in Hayle, Cornwall, England run by Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. History Following the donation by Miss Frances Ellis of some property in Hayle to the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross of Liege in 1904, the Daughters of the Cross established a convent in The Downes, Miss Ellis's former manor house, and a hospital on an adjacent part of the site in 1913. After the Daughters of the Cross experienced some financial difficulties paying for the running of the hospital, the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust acquired the hospital in November 2003. The convent became The Downes Residential Care Home at the same time. Services The hospital carries out approximately 5,000 operations each year and sees more than 17,000 outpatients each year. Its specialisms are breast surgery and orthopaedic surgery. See also Healthcare in Cornwall List of hospitals in England References External links Official website
St Michael's Prep School, Otford

St Michael's Prep School is a coeducational preparatory school in Otford, located in a 100-acre (400,000 m2) site in the North Downs, Kent, England. History St Michael's was founded at Hatcham in 1872 by the Reverend Arthur Tooth as a school and home for the sons of the clergy, naval and military officers as well as professionals who had suffered bereavement or fallen on hard times. The school now has more than 460 pupils. Historic abuse allegations In 2005, actor John Hurt stated in an interview with the Independent on Sunday that when he was a pupil at the school he was abused by Donald Cormack, then Senior Master of the school; he later became Head Teacher until his retirement in 1981. Hurt said that the experience affected him "hugely". According to the interviewer, he and Hurt had a mutual friend who had earlier made the same allegations to him. Notable alumni Teachers Roy Martin Haines Pupils Hubert Chesshyre, Clarenceux King of Arms, Secretary of the Order of the Garter, John Hurt, actor Roy Martin Haines, historian Tom Bosworth - represented his country in race walking in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Lizzy Yarnold - silver medallist in the 2011 Bob Skeleton Junior World Championships, 2014 winter Olympic gold medalist, 2018 winter Olympic gold medalist Further reading Sally Maria Jones, St Michael's School, Otford: Recollections, Observations, and Celebrations. The Story of St Michael's School, Otford, Since its Foundation in Hatcham, New Cross, in 1872 (Sevenoaks: Amherst, 2004; 255pp., with illustrations and portraits; ISBN 1-903637-22-8) References External links School website
St Michael's Catholic Academy, Billingham

St Michael's Catholic Academy (formerly St Michael's Roman Catholic School) is a co-educational Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status, located in Billingham, the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England. The school converted to academy status on 2 September 2013 under the sponsorship of Bishop Hogarth Catholic Educational Trust. The headteacher of the school is Clare Humble. St Michael's Catholic Academy was funded by the Government's Building Schools for the Future investment scheme, St. Michael's was then to be relocated to a site adjacent to Billingham Campus School in the second wave of funding from the programme. However, following the scrapping of the program in 2010, the relocation was cancelled. The new school building was opened in 2016, and the old school buildings have since been demolished. References External links St. Michael’s School Website