St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover facts for kids
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St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover, from the southwest
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| OS grid reference | SP 508 773 |
| Location | Brownsover, Rugby, Warwickshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | Churches Conservation Trust |
| History | |
| Dedication | St Michael and All Angels |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Redundant |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* |
| Designated | 1 October 1949 |
| Architect(s) | Sir George Gilbert Scott (restoration) |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic |
| Groundbreaking | 13th century |
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| Materials | Stone, clay tile roof |
St Michael and All Angels Church is an old Anglican church in Brownsover, which is now part of Rugby town in Warwickshire, England. It's a special building that is no longer used for regular church services. It is listed as a Grade II* building, meaning it's very important and protected. The Churches Conservation Trust now looks after it.
Church History
St Michael's Church started in the 1200s. It was a small church for people who lived far from the main church in Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. More windows were added to the church later in the 1200s and in the 1300s and 1400s.
After a big change in England's church history called the English Reformation, strong stone supports called buttresses were added. A porch was also built at the west end of the church.
In 1876, the church got a big makeover. A famous architect named Sir George Gilbert Scott led the work. He almost rebuilt the whole church, but he made sure it still looked old and traditional. In the early 1900s, new stained glass was put into the east window.
The church stopped being used for regular services on February 10, 1987. It was then given to the Churches Conservation Trust to look after and preserve.
Church Design
Outside the Church
The church is built from light-coloured stone with reddish-brown stone decorations. Its roof is made of clay tiles. The church has a simple layout with a main hall, called a nave, and a smaller section at the east end, called a chancel.
The nave is about 9 meters (30 feet) long and 7.3 meters (24 feet) wide. The chancel is about 5.9 meters (19.5 feet) long and 4 meters (13.25 feet) wide. There's a small brick part added at the northeast corner.
The west end of the church has a pointed roof shape, called a gable. It also has strong stone supports and a decorative stone line. You enter the church through a west doorway with a pointed arch. On each side of the door are windows with two sections. Above these are smaller windows with one section. Between them, a bell hangs from a gabled bracket.
The north and south sides of the nave have two windows with two sections each. There's also a single, tall, narrow window in the east wall of the nave. The chancel has strong stone supports and a large east window with three sections. On its north side, there's a window with two tall, narrow sections, and on the south, there's a similar window plus another single one.
Inside the Church
The inside walls of the church are mostly covered in plaster and painted white. The floor has colourful tiles from the 1800s. In the south wall, there's a special basin called a piscina, used for washing sacred vessels.
The baptismal font, where baptisms take place, is round and dates back to the 1200s. The east window has stained glass from the 1900s. This glass remembers Lawrence Sheriff, who founded Rugby School. All the other windows have clear glass.
Inside the church, there's a rectangular wooden screen from the 1400s. The wooden pulpit, where sermons are given, is from Flanders (now Belgium) and dates to the 1700s. It's built into the east wall of the nave.
The case for the organ is German and very decorated. It was made in 1660 for St John's College, Cambridge, and moved here in the late 1800s. The organ itself was built in 1876 by the Bryceson Brothers.
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