St Michael's Church, Hulme Walfield

Coordinates: 53°10′56″N 2°13′55″W / 53.1821°N 2.2320°W / 53.1821; -2.2320
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St Michael's Church, Hulme Walfield
pantile roof
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseChester
ArchdeaconryMacclesfield
DeaneryCongleton
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Ian Michael Arch

St Michael's Church is in Giantswood Lane,

Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2] The authors of the Buildings of England series comment that it is "an attractive building, and one for which money must have been spent generously".[3]

History

St Michael's was built in 1855–56, and designed by George Gilbert Scott.[3] It was originally a chapel of ease to St Mary, Astbury, and became a parish in its own right in 1878.[4]

Architecture

The church is constructed in

canopied niche. Each of the four bays on the south side of the church contains a two-light window with a trefoil head. At the west end are two more two-light windows.[2]

Inside the church, between the nave and the aisle, is a four-bay arcade carried on circular piers with foliate capitals. The chancel arch is richly moulded. The octagonal font dates from the 16th century, and is decorated with blind tracery.[2] The organ was built at an unknown date by Young.[5]

Churchyard

The churchyard contains the war graves of a soldier of World War I, and another of World War II.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ St Michael, Hulme Walfield, Church of England, retrieved 20 March 2012
  2. ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Michael, Hulme Walfield (1330051)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 March 2012
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  4. ^ Church History, GENUKI, retrieved 20 March 2012
  5. National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies
    , retrieved 1 July 2020
  6. ^ HULME WALFIELD (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 3 February 2013