St Michael and All Angels Church, Crewe Green

St Michael and All Angels Church is in the village of Crewe Green, 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. Its benefice is combined with that of St Matthew, Haslington.

1. History

The church was built in 1857–58 to a design by Sir George Gilbert Scott for the 3rd Lord Crewe.

1. Architecture

St Michael's is constructed in red and blue brick, with stone dressings, and is decorated with bands of encaustic tiles. It has a tiled roof. The plan consists of a four-bay nave, with an apsidal chancel, a south porch, a north vestry, and an octagonal turret at the northeast corner of the nave. The church stands on a sandstone plinth, and the walls are decorated with diaper work and blue brick bands. The porch is gabled and in the apex of the gable is an inset panel of Christ blessing. At the west end is a rose window flanked by round panels depicting the Holy Family and angels. The interior of the church is in white brick with decoration in red brick. The ceiling has beams of dark wood. The reredos contains a fresco of the Last Supper. The pulpit is in stone with dark marble shafts. The font is decorated with the symbols of the Evangelists. The furnishings in the choir are elaborately carved, including poppyheads. The stained glass dates probably from the 1860s, and is probably by Wailes. The scenes at the west end of the church are from the Old Testament, and in the east end are from the New Testament.

1. External features

The churchyard contains the war graves of a soldier and a sailor of World War II as well as the graves of the 3rd Lord Crewe's niece Amicia Henrietta Fitzgerald, daughter of Richard Monckton Milnes and Annabel Crewe, and her husband Sir Gerald Fitzgerald.

1. See also

Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire East List of new churches by George Gilbert Scott in Northern England Listed buildings in Crewe Green

1. References

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Crewe Green

Crewe Green is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Weston and Crewe Green, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The village lies 1½ miles to the east of the centre of Crewe. The parish also includes a dispersed settlement of houses and farms called Slaughter Hill, the Jacobean mansion of Crewe Hall, and the industrial estates of Crewe Hall Enterprise Park and Crewe Hall Farm. Nearby villages include Haslington and Stowford. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 140, increasing to 213 at the 2011 Census.

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Haslington

Haslington is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of the much larger railway town of Crewe and approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Sandbach. The village was originally bisected by the A534 road that links Crewe with Sandbach, however, this road has now been re-routed to bypass the village to the north-west. The village is also a close neighbour to a number of small towns and villages (including Alsager, Wheelock, Winterley), and is approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from the Elizabethan market town of Nantwich. The village lies approximately 11 miles (18 km) north-west of the Staffordshire Potteries .

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St Matthew's Church, Haslington

St Matthew's Church is in the village of Haslington, 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. Its benefice is combined with that of St Michael and All Angels, Crewe Green.

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