---
title: "St Michael, Stoney Stanton"
description: "Located in Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire. Built Late C14 and C15; chancel and south aisle 1842; north aisle 1888; south porch 1910. Diocese of Leicester. Grade II*. Perpendicular with Victorian additions style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Leicestershire","Stoney Stanton","Grade II*","Perpendicular","H Goddard","W Bassett Smith"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-michael-stoney-stanton"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:49:10.174Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:34:28.928Z"
location: "Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire"
country: "England"
county: "Leicestershire"
town: "Stoney Stanton"
address: "New Road, Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire, LE9 4TH"
postcode: "LE9 4TH"
built: "Late C14 and C15; chancel and south aisle 1842; north aisle 1888; south porch 1910"
architect: "H Goddard (1842); W Bassett Smith (1888)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Michael"]
diocese: "Leicester"
grade: "II*"
style: "Perpendicular with Victorian additions"
materials: "Random granite rubble and dressed stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs"
website: "http://stmaryandstmichael.org.uk/"
openingHours: "10am to 4pm weekdays and Saturdays."
parish: "Broughton Astley and Croft with Stoney Stanton"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074704"
gridReference: "SP 489 948"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Level access throughout. Accessible toilets in church"
---

# St Michael, Stoney Stanton

St Michael's is a Grade II* parish church at Nock Verges, Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire, in the Diocese of Leicester and the parish of Broughton Astley and Croft with Stoney Stanton.

## Overview

Historic England dates the church to the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Henry Goddard designed the chancel and south aisle of 1842; the south aisle was extended as an organ chamber in 1882; W. Bassett Smith added the north aisle and vestry in 1888; the south porch is of 1910. Fabric is random granite rubble and dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. The plan includes a four-stage west tower with set-back octagonal spire, nave with clerestory, aisles, vestry, chancel and porches.

The tower has clasping buttresses, lucarnes, a restored west window with geometrical tracery and fourteenth-century-style bell openings. A reset Romanesque tympanum over the vestry door, removed when the south aisle was added, shows a bishop, a lion and a dove. Fittings include a thirteenth-century hewn oak chest about two and a half metres long, an octagonal painted ashlar font with an eighteenth-century cover, and George III Royal Arms. The tower has eight bells; a peal of 12,896 changes of Cambridge Surprise Major was rung here on 28 April 1923.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1074704](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1074704)
- [St Mary and St Michael benefice](http://stmaryandstmichael.org.uk/)
- [British Listed Buildings: St Michael's Church, Stoney Stanton](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101074704-st-michaels-church-stoney-stanton)