St Michael & All Angels, Mottram in Longdendale
St Michael & All Angels, Mottram in Longdendale
St Michael and All Angels stands on Warhill above Mottram in Longdendale, a Grade II* Perpendicular church in the Diocese of Chester whose tower dominates the Longdendale skyline.
- Location
- Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Cheshire
- City / town
- Mottram in Longdendale
- Address
- Church Brow, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire, SK14 6JL
- Postcode
- SK14 6JL
- Built
- 15th century; tower c.1486; interior, vestry and clerestory 1854
- Architect
- E. H. Shellard (1854 interior, vestry and clerestory)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Chester
- Parish
- Mottram in Longdendale
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Perpendicular Gothic
- Materials
- Hammer-dressed stone with ashlar clerestory and a graduated stone-slate roof
- Grid reference
- SJ 994 952
- Opening hours
- Church open daily.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a fifteenth-century church with a tower of about 1486; the interior, vestry and clerestory are by E. H. Shellard, 1854. The fabric is hammer-dressed stone with an ashlar clerestory and a graduated stone-slate roof. The plan comprises a nave with aisles, aisle chapels, south porch and west tower, plus chancel and north vestry, in Perpendicular style. The six-bay aisle has a weathered plinth and castellated parapet; each bay has a weathered buttress and a stepped three-light window. The four-stage tower has angled weathered buttresses, a castellated parapet with crocketed corner finials, a three-light west window, a clock face and two-light belfry openings. The two-bay chancel has a five-light transomed Perpendicular-style east window.
The interior has a nave arcade on octagonal columns, a braced tie-beam nave roof, a High Victorian alabaster pulpit by H. Hems (1885), a chandelier of 1755 and a barrel-shaped stone font. The Staveleigh chapel holds two early-fifteenth-century recumbent stone effigies; there is also a monument to Reginald Bretland (1703). The church is open daily.