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Description: Church of St. Michael

Address: St. Michaels Church Church Street Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Church Street, Mytholmroyd

Full description:
Church. 1848 by Mallinson and Healey. Early English style. Dressed stone, slate roof. Originally single aisled with added south aisle and chapel. Nave, aisles under 3-span room with nave, chancel, west tower. 3-stage embattled tower with angle buttresses; pointed arched doorway with 2-light west window with trefoil head which rises into the 2nd stage which has small printed lights to 2 faces; 3rd stage has pointed arched belfry and later clock faces; octagonal vice clasps north corner of tower and rises higher surmounted by octagonal spire. Aisles have 5 bays of pointed arched 2-light windows with cusped lights surmounted by quatrefoil. Each bay articulated by offset buttresses. North aisle has extra blind bay. Attached to chancel at south side is small chapel with panelled tracery window in 2 canted faces. Chancel has offset diagonal buttresses and 3-light east window with Gothic rose-window. Coped gable with carved kneelers and cross to apex. String course continues round the building under the window sills. Low vestry at right angles to chancel on north side has hip to roof and 4-light window with trefoil head and spandrels; pointed arched doorway in the right hand return wall. Interior: 5-bay nave with open arcades to aisles which have octagonal columns with moulded capitals and pointed arches. Arch-braced roof rises from corbels. 3-bay chancel, the walls entirely covered with mosaics of the Apostles and the Northern Saints; waggon roof.