St Michael, Kirby le Soken
St Michael, Kirby le Soken
St Michael’s is a Grade II* parish church on The Street, Kirby-le-Soken, Essex, in the Diocese of Chelmsford.
- Location
- Kirby le Soken, Essex
- Country
- England
- County
- Essex
- City / town
- Kirby le Soken
- Address
- The Street, Kirby le Soken, Essex, CO13 0EF
- Postcode
- CO13 0EF
- Built
- 14th–15th centuries; restored c.1833; mainly rebuilt c.1870 by Henry Stone; 15th-century west tower retained
- Architect
- Henry Stone (c.1870 rebuild)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Michael
- Diocese
- Chelmsford
- Parish
- Kirby-le-Soken St Michael
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Perpendicular tower with 19th-century Gothic rebuild
- Materials
- Stone, flint and septaria with stone dressings; plain red tiled roofs
- Grid reference
- TM 219 220
- Opening hours
- Normally open during daylight hours.
- Access
- Level access throughout
Overview
Historic England lists a fourteenth- and fifteenth-century parish church, restored about 1833 and mainly rebuilt about 1870 by Henry Stone, retaining a fifteenth-century west tower. The fabric is stone, flint and septaria with stone dressings and plain red tiled roofs. The plan is chancel, nave, north and south aisles, vestry and a large three-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses, flint-flushwork crenellations, a quatrefoil plinth frieze of shields, and a raised octagonal stair turret to the south-east. A gabled north porch has a moulded two-centred doorway with double shafts. The interior has a probably fourteenth-century double piscina in the chancel, three-bay north and south arcades with alternate circular and octagonal columns and ball-flower decoration to the arches, a seven-cant nave roof on stone corbels, and a chamfered tower arch. The church is normally open in daylight hours.