St Michael, Brimfield
St Michael, Brimfield
St Michael’s is a Grade II* parish church on Church Road, Brimfield, Herefordshire, in the Diocese of Hereford, a village church whose thirteenth-century west tower is paired with a nave and chancel of 1834.
- Location
- Brimfield, Herefordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Herefordshire
- City / town
- Brimfield
- Address
- Church Road, Brimfield, Herefordshire, SY8 4NF
- Postcode
- SY8 4NF
- Built
- C13 tower; nave and chancel 1834; restored 1884 and 1904–5; porch and vestry 1908
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Hereford
- Parish
- Brimfield
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Medieval west tower with C19 Gothic nave and chancel
- Materials
- Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof; close-studded timber-framed belfry
- Grid reference
- SO 526 674
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of the thirteenth century, partly rebuilt in 1834, restored in 1884 and 1904–5 and extended in 1908. The fabric is coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The plan is a thirteenth-century west tower (raised in the sixteenth century), nave and chancel of 1834, and a north porch and vestry of 1908. The three-stage tower has a close-studded timber-framed belfry, probably sixteenth-century, with louvred two-light openings. Lower stages retain small semi-circular headed windows; a nineteenth-century two-centred window cuts through one of them, and a blocked door with a semi-elliptical head remains on the north. Listing NGR is SO 52684 67493.
The three-bay nave has two-light trefoiled windows under two-centred heads. The 1908 porch is timber-framed on a stone plinth with rendered infill. The chancel has a two-light north window and a three-light east window. Interior ceilings are plastered segmental vaults. Fittings include a thirteenth-century font with a quatrefoil bowl and an Arts and Crafts lectern of wrought iron and brass. The church is in the Western Parishes of the Leominster Team Ministry.