St Michael, Owermoigne
St Michael, Owermoigne
St Michael’s is a Grade II* Church of England parish church on Church Lane, Owermoigne, Dorset, with an early-fifteenth-century west tower and a nave and chancel of 1883, in the Diocese of Salisbury.
- Location
- Owermoigne, Dorset
- Country
- England
- County
- Dorset
- City / town
- Owermoigne
- Address
- Church Lane, Owermoigne, Dorset, DT2 8HS
- Postcode
- DT2 8HS
- Built
- West tower early C15; remainder rebuilt 1883 with medieval windows reset in the chancel
- Architect
- S. Jackson of Weymouth (1883 rebuild)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Owermoigne
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Perpendicular west tower; C19 Gothic nave and chancel
- Materials
- Local rubble-stone walls; clay tile roofs
- Grid reference
- SY 7688 8532
- Opening hours
- Every day between 9am and 4.30pm.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
The Royal Commission and the listing agree that the three-storey west tower is early fifteenth century, with an embattled parapet, gargoyles, a north vice in a rounded projection, and a two-light west window. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1883 to designs by S. Jackson of Weymouth. One mid-thirteenth-century and two sixteenth-century windows were reset in the chancel. Fittings include an eighteenth-century circular font, an eighteenth-century benefactors’ board recording a 1653 bequest of Adam Jones of Holworth, and a brass in the chancel to John Sturton (or Burton in some transcripts), 1506. RCHME notes three bells (one fifteenth-century, two by John Wallis, 1594).
Historic England listed the church Grade II* on 26 January 1956 (list entry 1119232). It is in the Watercombe benefice.