Description

SP 81 SE HALTON HALTON VILLAGE
east side

5/79 Church of St. Michael and All
Angels
21.12.67

GV II

Parish Church. 1813 by Henry Rhodes, restored and remodelled 1886-7.
Built from squared blocks of sarsen or greyweather stone, probably from
near High Wycombe, the joints galletted with pieces of flint. Slate
roofs. Simple lancet style, W. tower, with diagonal W. buttresses, small
stair turret on S. side, door and 2-light window over on W. side, parapet
with broken coping, nave and aisles. S. porch and short chancel. Interior:
4 bay nave, pointed arches with dogtooth ornament on high cylindrical
piers with leaf ornament to capitals and square bases also ornamented.
Chancel arch on carved corbel heads, hoodmoulds with circular label stops;
roof with curved braces and pendants, cusped spandrels, on angel head corbels.
Chancel roof coffered and painted with enriched cornice and 3 bosses.
Small pointed arched niches each side of tripel lancet E. window. Brass
from former church reset on LH side of chancel. Organ in small W. gallery
over 3 arched wood screen. C19 marble font has square fluted bowl on spiral
stem and carved base.

Listing NGR: SP8744310102

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26617626

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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