St Michael and All Angels Church, Crewe Green

St Michael and All Angels Church, Crewe Green
St Michael and All Angels Church, Crewe Green, from the north
St Michael and All Angels Church, Crewe Green Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°05′41″N 2°24′33″W / 53.0947°N 2.4092°W / 53.0947; -2.4092
OS grid reference	SJ 727 554
Location	Crewe Green, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Michael's, Crewe Green
History
Dedication	St Michael and All Angels
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	20 January 1975
Architect(s)	Sir George Gilbert Scott
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1858
Specifications
Materials	Brick with tile roof
Administration
Parish	Crewe (otherwise Crewe Green)
Deanery	Nantwich
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Diocese of Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Anne Lawson

St Michael and All Angels Church, Crewe Green, is in the village of Crewe Green, 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. Its benefice is combined with that of St Matthew, Haslington.^[2]

History

The church was built in 1857–58 to a design by Sir George Gilbert Scott for the 3rd Lord Crewe.^[3]

Architecture

St Michael's is constructed in in red and blue brick, with stone dressings, and is decorated with bands of encaustic tiles.^[3] It has a tiled roof. The plan consists of a four-bay nave, with an apsidal chancel, a south porch, a north vestry, and an octagonal turret at the northeast corner of the nave. The church stands on a sandstone plinth, and the walls are decorated with diaper work and blue brick bands. The porch is gabled and in the apex of the gable is an inset panel of Christ blessing. At the west end is a rose window flanked by round panels depicting the Holy Family and angels.^[1]

The interior of the church is in white brick with decoration in red brick.^[1] The ceiling has beams of dark wood. The reredos contains a fresco of the Last Supper.^[2] The pulpit is in stone with dark marble shafts. The font is decorated with the symbols of the Evangelists. The furnishings in the choir are elaborately carved, including poppyheads. The stained glass dates probably from the 1860s, and is probably by Wailes. The scenes at the west end of the church are from the Old Testament, and in the east end are from the New Testament.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Church of St Michael, Crewe Green", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1138674, retrieved 1 May 2011 
2. ^ ^{a b} Crewe Green, St Michael, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/crewe-green-st-michael-all-angels/, retrieved 4 October 2009 
3. ^ ^{a b c} {Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 316, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6