OS grid reference SJ 702 566 Country England Churchmanship Catholic Opened 1910 Diocese Diocese of Chester Dedication Michael | Location Crewe, Cheshire Denomination Anglican Website St Michael, Coppenhall Status Parish church Province Province of York Architect James Brooks | |
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Similar St Nicholas' Chapel, Zion Chapel - Chester, St Mary's and St Michael's, St Olave's Church - Chester, St Luke's Church - Dunham | ||
St Michael's Church is in the Coppenhall area of Crewe, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Nantwich.
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History
A timber-framed church was built on the site around 1373. 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.
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.
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. The three-manual organ was built around 1900 by Forster and Andrews, and rebuilt in 1977 with alterations, by Sixsmith.