Description

PARISH OF STANTON BY DALE STANHOPE STREET
SK 43 NE
6/99 (West Side) Church of St Michael
10.11.67 Church of St. Michael
& All Angels
II*

Parish church. Early C14, C15, heavily restored in the C19.
Coursed squared gritstone with gritstone dressings. Welsh slate
roofs with stone coped gables. West tower, nave with north
aisle and south porch, chancel and north vestry. West tower of
two unequal stages divided by a moulded stringcourse. Clasping
buttresses to west. Moulded plinth. West window of two lancet
lights under a square head and set in a deep chamfered surround.
Returned hoodmould. To the south a single chamfered lancet.
2-light bell openings in all directions, of two lancets within a
four-centred arch. Moulded stringcourse above. Battlements and
four crocketed pinnacles. South side of nave has a gabled porch
with plain chamfered entrance and C20 doors. Small rectangular
windows to the sides. To the left, is a 2-light Dec style C19
window. To the right is a 3-light window with cusped
intersecting tracery. Broad buttress to the right. The south
side of the chancel has a 3-light window with cusped
intersecting tracery. To the right a double chamfered priest's
doorway and a 3-light window with steep triangular head. East
end with angle buttresses and east window of three stepped
lancet lights within a single pointed arch. C19 north vestry
has small Dec style windows. Gabled north aisle of two bays
divided by buttresses. Two 3-light windows of three lancet
lights within a single arch. Single west lancet is probably C13
but much restored. In the east gable are two small trefoiled
lancets. The south porch has stone seats and a stone vaulted
roof on two transverse ribs. Square headed south doorway has a
crudely round-arched tympanum with incised cross in a circle,
possibly C12. Three bay north arcade has octagonal piers and
abaci and double chamfered arches. Double chamfered tower arch,
the inner order on corbels. Double chamfered C19 chancel arch,
the inner order on foliage capitals, colonnettes and head
corbels. Plain C19 roofs, the chancel painted with stars. C19
choir stalls and organ case with coving and painted pipes.
Trefoiled piscina. A second piscina in the former north aisle
chapel, now behind the organ. Trefoiled arch and a relief
carving above of a head beneath a pinnacles gable. C14
octagonal font with tracery panels and curved underside of the
bowl. East window of c1896 by C E Kempe.

Listing NGR: SK4648238143

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Michael and All Angels at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17546194

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