St Michael & All Angels, Skelbrooke
St Michael & All Angels, Skelbrooke
St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II parish church on Straight Lane, Skelbrooke, South Yorkshire, in the Diocese of Sheffield.
- Location
- Skelbrooke, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Skelbrooke
- Address
- Straight Lane, Skelbrooke, Yorkshire, DN6 8LX
- Postcode
- DN6 8LX
- Built
- Medieval; extensively rebuilt 1872 after a fire
- Architect
- Joseph Goddard
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Sheffield
- Parish
- Skelbrooke
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic Revival, reusing medieval fabric
- Materials
- Rubble limestone, red tile roofs
- Grid reference
- SE 511 121
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a medieval church extensively rebuilt by Joseph Goddard after a major fire in 1872. The fabric is rubble limestone with red tile roofs. The plan is a west tower, three-bay nave with south porch, and two-bay chancel with a separate north chapel and a gabled south projection. The tower has a chamfered plinth, large quoins, a nineteenth-century west door with shouldered lintel, a three-light Decorated-style window above, pointed two-light belfry openings, a band with carved bosses, an embattled parapet and renewed pinnacles.
The gabled south porch has a hooded arch and an old carving of an angel with a shield. Inside, the listing notes a segmentally pointed tower arch, a truncated stone newel stair in the south buttress, a fourteenth-century piscina, and a fifteenth-century double-chamfered arcade into the chancel chapel. Stained glass includes a west window of 1885 and a north nave window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The parish notes that a church has stood on the site for almost 700 years.