St Michael and All Angels' Church, Ashton-under-Lyne

St Michael and All Saint's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne

St Michaels and All Saints' Church, 2008
Shown within Greater Manchester
Basic information
Location Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England
Geographic coordinates SJ94159900
53°29′16″N 2°05′23″W / 53.487675°N 2.089699°W / 53.487675; -2.089699Coordinates: 53°29′16″N 2°05′23″W / 53.487675°N 2.089699°W / 53.487675; -2.089699
Affiliation Anglican
District Diocese of Manchester
Ecclesiastical or organizational status Parish church
Architectural type Church
Specifications
Spire(s) 1
Spire height 139ft 6in
Materials Sandstone, stone-slate roof

St. Michael's Church (in full, St. Michael and All Angels) in Ashton-under-Lyne (grid reference SJ94159900) is a Grade I Listed Building. It is one of 116 surviving medieval parish churches in the North West. The church dates back to at least 1262, and a church on the site was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The church was rebuilt in the fifteenth century and in 1515 at the behest of Sir Thomas de Assheton; however little of the previous church remains after it was rebuilt again in the nineteenth century.[1]

See also

References

  1. Mike Nevell (1991). Tameside 1066-1700. Tameside Metropolitan Borough and University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. pp. 121, 135. ISBN 1-871324-02-5.


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