St Michael's Church is in Giantswood Lane, Hulme Walfield, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2] The authors of the Buildings of England series comment that it is "an attractive building, and one for which money must have been spent generously".[3]

History

St Michael's was built in 1855–56, and designed by George Gilbert Scott.[3] It was originally a chapel of ease to St Mary, Astbury, and became a parish in its own right in 1878.[4]

Architecture

The church is constructed in sandstone, and has a 20th-century pantile roof. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a northwest porch, a chancel, a southeast vestry, and a northeast organ chamber. On the east gable of the nave is a double bellcote. The porch projects from the second bay on the north side, and has a cross finial on the apex of its gable. Inside the porch are stone benches, and the side walls contain embrasures. In the other bays are two-light windows with trefoil heads containing Geometric tracery. The organ chamber has two lancet windows on the north side, and a two-light window on the east side. The north wall of the chancel also contains a two-light window. The east window has three lights, above which is a canopied niche. Each of the four bays on the south side of the church contains a two-light window with a trefoil head. At the west end are two more two-light windows.[2]

Inside the church, between the nave and the aisle, is a four-bay arcade carried on circular piers with foliate capitals. The chancel arch is richly moulded. The octagonal font dates from the 16th century, and is decorated with blind tracery.[2] The organ was built at an unknown date by Young.[5]

Churchyard

The churchyard contains the war graves of a soldier of World War I, and another of World War II.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ St Michael, Hulme Walfield, Church of England, retrieved 20 March 2012
  2. ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Michael, Hulme Walfield (1330051)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 March 2012
  3. ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 407, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
  4. ^ Church History, GENUKI, retrieved 20 March 2012
  5. ^ "NPOR [J00080]", National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 1 July 2020
  6. ^ HULME WALFIELD (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, retrieved 3 February 2013
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