Church of St Michael, Great Witley

Heritage listing

Details SO 76 SE 6/83 GREAT WITLEY CP WITLEY PARK Church of St Michael 29.07.59 GV I Parish church. Consecrated 1735, refaced c1860. Attributed to Gibbs for Thomas, first Lord Foley, refaced by S.W Daukes for Lord Ward, later first Earl of Dudley. Brick core, Bathstone refacing, slate roof. Rectangular in plan with shallow projections to north and south of east end, forming transepts, west porch. Baroque. Moulded plinth, rusticated quoins, listel cornice and balustraded parapet with urn finials to corner and intermediate dice. Keyed semicircular-arched windows with moulded impost string, recessed panels to pilasters, and bracketed sills. West entrance elevation: two storeys, three bays; central slightly forward break defined by quoins, square bell tower over with open arcaded octagonal cupola, pedimented porch supported on Tuscan columns, ground-floor windows with slightly cambered keyed heads. South lateral elevation: 1:3:1 bays, projecting eastern bay and bay to west defined by quoins, windows to east end bay and central three arched windows with keyed hoodmoulds, bracketed sills and pilasters in arched recesses with keyed hoods continued from label strings, Venetian window to east end. INTERIOR: with west gallery and central organ housing richly decorated in an Italian manner with gilded rococo style stuccoed ornament arranged in panels to the walls and window reveals, coved ceiling with triangular penetrations above windows of papier maché with similar gilded enrichments, ceiling paintings by Antonio Bellucci; main central painting of the Ascension flanked by the Nativity and the Deposition; a further twenty small medallions also decorate the ceiling; signed stained glass in the windows by Joshua Price of York, with dates 1719-1721 from designs by Francesco Sleter (

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.