St Michael's Church, Coppenhall

St Michael's Church, Coppenhall
St Michael's Church, Coppenhall
St Michael's Church, Coppenhall Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°06′22″N 2°26′51″W / 53.1060°N 2.4474°W / 53.1060; -2.4474
OS grid reference	SJ 702 566
Location	Crewe, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Catholic
Website	St Michael, Coppenhall
History
Founded	c. 1373
Dedication	Saint Michael
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	14 June 1984
Architect(s)	James Brooks J. Brooks, Son & Adkins
Architectural type	Church
Groundbreaking	1883
Completed	1910
Specifications
Materials	Red brick with slate roofs Copper-covered flèche
Administration
Parish	Coppenhall
Deanery	Nantwich
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Fr Charles Razzall
Laity
Churchwarden(s)	Edna Machin Randle Sambrook

St Michael's Church, Coppenhall is in the Coppenhall area of Crewe, Cheshire, England. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.^[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Nantwich.^[2]

History

A timber-framed church was built on the site around 1373.^[1] The structure of the present church dates from 1883–86 when the chancel was built to a design by James Brooks. The nave was added to a design by J. Brooks, Son and Adkins in 1907–10.^[3]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is built in red brick with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, transepts and a chancel with an organ to its north and a chapel to its south. Over the crossing is a copper-covered flèche. The church is built on a blue brick plinth and has a stone cill band and stone lancet windows.^[1]

Interior

To the west of the church is the baptistery which contains a marble font with an oak crocketted cover. The reredos is painted in the style of an icon. The pulpit is of oak. On the walls are alabaster memorials and timber Stations of the Cross.^[1] The three-manual organ was built around 1900 by Forster and Andrews, and rebuilt in 1977 with alterations, by Sixsmith.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Church of St Michael, Crewe", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1330090, retrieved 5 May 2011 
2. ^ St Michael, Coppenhall, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/coppenhall-st-michael/, retrieved 14 December 2010 
3. ^ Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 310, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 
4. ^ Coppenhall Moss St. Michael, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D08282, retrieved 15 August 2008