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St Michael's Church, Wincle, from the south
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OS grid reference	SJ 959 662
Location	Wincle, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Michael's Wincle
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	St Michael
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	14 June 1984
Architect(s)	Edward Witts
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1882
Specifications
Materials	Buff rubble gritstone Roof grey tiles
Administration
Parish	Wincle, St Michael
Deanery	Macclesfield
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York

St Michael's Church is in the village of Wincle, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Macclesfield. Its benefice is combined with those of St Mary, Bosley, St Michael, North Rode, and St Saviour, Wildboarclough. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

The original church was built in 1647 on the site of a Neolithic burial mound. A tower was added about 1815, and the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1882 by Edward Witts.

Architecture

The church is built in buff coursed rubble gritstone with a roof of banded grey tiles. The tower is at the west end and the body of the church has five bays. There are no aisles. The tower is in three stages, with a plain west window and bell openings with louvres of Kerridge stone. The top of the tower is battlemented. Over the priest's door is a lintel from the older church which is dated 1647. In the church is a font dated 1861. The interior of the church is "unadorned".

External features

In the southwest corner of the churchyard is the war grave of a South Wales Borderers soldier of World War I.