St Michael and the Holy Angels

Introduction

The church is a substantial red brick church in the Early English style, built in two phases from designs by two notable Catholic church architects.

Architecture and furnishings

The church comprises a north-west tower, a nave with clerestory and continuous chancel, north and south aisles, and north and south chapels. The east window contains glass of late C19 date. The church is built of red brick with some stone dressings and a tile roof. The bell openings are each of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head.

The aisles are of five bays, with alternate paired lancets and round windows. The clerestory has single lancets. The transeptal chapels each have two lancets with a round window above. At the east end is a rose window.

The interior has three-bay nave arcades with pointed moulded brick arches springing from painted round columns with moulded capitals. The roof has scissor-braced rafters. There is a west organ gallery. The chancel is divided from the nave by an arch-braced truss carried on slim engaged shafts.

The chancel roof is boarded. The west wall has triple stepped lancets with stone heads and sills, and a moulded pointed doorway with angle shafts.

Visiting

The parish has a Divine Mercy Chapel open every day for private prayer. The parish office arranges visits to the sick and housebound members of the parish.