Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS (1278472)

SJ 59 SE BURTONWOOD C.P. CHAPEL LANE 1/7 Church of St Michael and All Angels (Formerly listed as Church of 9/8/1966 St Michael) II Church, founded 1606, rebuilt 1716, south aisle by E.J.Dod added 1939. Stone-dressed brick with grey slate roof to nave, copper to aisle. West tower, simple nave, south aisle, small apsidal chancel. 3-stage tower has circular windows to lower stage, clock and round-arched bell-openings, simple cornice with ball-finials and ornate weather-vane, south porch against tower has keystone inscribed Built 1716, rebuilt [porch only] 1939. Nave of 5 bays has round-headed Y-tracery windows to north. South aisle has similar windows with 2-light square-headed windows to clerestorey. 2 round-arched windows to chancel. Interior. Tuscan south arcade of 1939 by Dod: simple round chancel-arch; hammer-beam nave trusses have iron rods for tension members. C20 armigerous glass; fragments of C17 church are preserved in apse. When inspected (1984) the church was undergoing major repair and strengthening, having been damaged by coal-mining subsidence. Listing NGR: SJ5651992847