Wincle
| Wincle | |
| Cheshire | |
|---|---|
 St Michael's Church. Wincle | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SJ9566 |
| Location: | 53°11’24"N, 2°3’36"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 147 |
| Post town: | Macclesfield |
| Postcode: | SK11 |
| Dialling code: | 01260 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Cheshire East |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Macclesfield |
Wincle is a village and parish in eastern Cheshire, six miles south-east of Macclesfield. It has a pub, brewery and school.[1][2] There are several Listed buildings including St Michael's Church.[3]
Church
St Michael's Church forms part of 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.[4] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade-II listed building.[3]
History
The original church was built in 1647 on the site of a Neolithic burial mound.[5] A tower was added about 1815, and the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1882 by Edward Witts.[6]
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.[3] In the church is a font dated 1861. The interior of the church is "unadorned".[3]
External features
In the south-west corner of the churchyard is the war grave of a South Wales Borderers soldier of World War I.[7]
Notes and references
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wincle) |
- ↑ "Wincle Parish - The Ship Inn". wincle.org.uk. http://www.wincle.org.uk/ship_inn.html.
- ↑ "Wincle Beer Company". winclebeer.co.uk. http://www.winclebeer.co.uk.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 National Heritage List 1366197: Church of St Michael, Wincle
- ↑ Wincle, St Michael, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/wincle-st-michael/, retrieved 18 October 2009
- ↑ Wincle Places: Wincle Church, Parish of Wincle, http://www.wincle.org.uk/history_places.html, retrieved 19 January 2008
- ↑ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 676, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- ↑ BELFIELD, J, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2747438/BELFIELD,%20J, retrieved 3 February 2013
