St Michael and All Angels Church, Little Leigh
St Michael and All Angels Church, Little Leigh, from the south
53°16′44″N 2°34′42″W / 53.2790°N 2.5783°W / 53.2790; -2.5783Coordinates: 53°16′44″N 2°34′42″W / 53.2790°N 2.5783°W / 53.2790; -2.5783
Location	Little Leigh, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Michael and All Angels
History
Dedication	St Michael
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	18 July 1986
Architect(s)	Edmund Kirby
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1879
Specifications
Materials	Brick with terracotta dressings Welsh slate roof with orange tile ridge
Administration
Deanery	Great Budworth
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Rev Richard Diggle
Laity
Churchwarden(s)	Anne Antrobus, Jean Porter

St Michael and All Angels Church, Little Leigh is in the village of Little Leigh, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ615759). The church is a Grade II listed building.^[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.^[2]

[edit] History

The church was built in 1879 to a design by Edmund Kirby. Before the church was built a chapel stood in what is now the churchyard.^[3]

[edit] Structure

The church is built in "fiery orange" brick with terracotta dressings. The roof is of Welsh slate with an orange tile ridge. The plan of the church consists of a four-bay nave with short transepts, a one-bay chancel, a south porch and a spire at the crossing. It is in Gothic style. The bays of the nave are divided alternately by buttresses and triangular-headed pilasters between which are paired lancet windows. The spire is a large flèche with wooden louvred bell-openings on each face. Above these are lucarnes, a lead finial and a weathercock.^[1]

[edit] Fittings and furnishings

The interior of the church is brick and terracotta throughout. In the chancel is a three-seat sedilia with a lancet above each seat.^[1] The reredos depicts the Last Supper in terracotta. Pevsner considers that the east window is over-large but very successful.^[4]

[edit] External features

The lychgate is dated 1882 and is listed Grade II. It consists of open timber framing and a hipped Lakeland slate roof.^[5]

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