St Michael & All Angels, Little Witley
St Michael and All Angels, Little Witley
St Michael is a Grade II parish church at Little Witley, Worcestershire, in the Diocese of Worcester and the parish of Shrawley and Witley (Great and Little).
- Location
- Little Witley, Worcestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Worcestershire
- City / town
- Little Witley
- Address
- Church Lane, Little Witley, Worcestershire, WR6 6LP
- Postcode
- WR6 6LP
- Built
- C13 foundations; rebuilt 1867
- Architect
- Probably S W Perkins
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Worcester
- Parish
- Shrawley and Witley
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Early English Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Red sandstone ashlar; tiled roof
- Grid reference
- SO 782 635
- Opening hours
- Covid19 : Visting restrictions are in place in line with current government pandemic rules. Every day 9am to 5pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
- Website
- http://4rivers.church/
Overview
Historic England records thirteenth-century foundations and a rebuild of 1867, probably by S. W. Perkins, in Early English style. The fabric is red sandstone ashlar with a tiled roof: nave with south porch, north vestry and an apsidal chancel. The three-bay nave has an octagonal-plan west bellcote on three columns with stiff-leaf capitals, decorative closed sides, conical capping and finial. Windows are pointed and Y-traceried with stiff-leaf capitals, hoodmoulds and stiff-leaf stops.
The porch is timber-framed and gabled. A semi-circular headed doorway on the north face is all that remains of the earlier church. The two-bay chancel has simple lancets. Inside, a trussed-rafter nave roof rests on stiff-leaf corbels; the pointed chancel arch is similar to the doorway and window surrounds, on two orders with stiff-leaf capitals.