St Michael's Church, St Michael's on Wyre
St Michael's | |
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Church of Saint Michael | |
53°51′46″N 2°49′10″W / 53.8628°N 2.8195°W | |
OS grid reference | SD 4620241041 |
Location | St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Anglican |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade I |
Designated | 17 April 1967 |
Administration | |
Province | York |
Diocese | Blackburn |
Archdeaconry | Lancaster |
Clergy | |
Priest in charge | Rev Andrew Wilkinson |
St Michael's Church is an
History
St Michael's on Wyre is one of seven ancient parishes of the
Architecture
The church is typical of
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.[3] The aisle is separated from the chancel by two wide arches. There is a porch to the south of the south aisle.[6] A shorter aisle lies to the north of the church, west of the Butler Chapel.[3]
The Butler Chapel to the north of the church dates from 1480 and was founded as a chantry of St Katharine.[5][6] It was repaired in 1797 and reseated and restored in 1854.[6] It has a pitched roof with an embattled parapet which dates from the 19th century.[3] Its windows have flat heads with cinquefoil tops and upper mouchettes.[5]
The tower houses a
See also
References
Footnotes
- ^ Cheetham (1914), p. 3
- ^ Cheetham (1914), p. 5
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Church Of St Michael, Garstang Road", Heritage Gateway, English Heritage, retrieved 19 August 2010
- ^ Listed Buildings, English Heritage, 2010, retrieved 22 August 2011
- ^ a b c d Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), pp. 591–92
- ^ a b c d e Farrer & Brownbill (1912)
- ^ a b Cheetham (1919), pp. 95–100
- ^ Myres, T. Harrison (1916). Bells & Bell Lore: Church Bells of the Amounderness and the Archdeaconry of Lancaster. p. 78.
- ^ "St Michael's on Wyre — S Michael", Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, 24 June 2009, retrieved 8 November 2010
Bibliography
- Cheetham, Frank Halliday (1914). The Church of St. Michael-on-Wyre in Amounderness. Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. OCLC 558246753.
- Cheetham, Frank Halliday (1919), The Church Bells of Lancashire [Part 4: The Hundred of Amounderness], Sherratt & Hughes, OCLC 27475286
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1912), "The Parish of St Michael-on-Wyre", A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7, pp. 260–267, retrieved 19 August 2010
- Hartwell, Clare; ISBN 0-300-12667-0
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1969), North Lancashire, London: OCLC 51622085