St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover

St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover
St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover, from the southwest
St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover Location in Warwickshire
Coordinates: 52°23′31″N 1°15′14″W / 52.3920°N 1.2540°W / 52.3920; -1.2540
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
Specifications
Materials	Stone, clay tile roof

St Michael and All Angels Church is a redundant Anglican church in the former village of Brownsover, which is now a suburb of the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

St Michael's originated in the 13th century as a chapel of ease to the parish of Clifton-upon-Dunsmore. Windows were added to the church later in the same century, and more were added in the following two centuries. After the Reformation, buttresses and a west porch were added. In 1876 the church was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott for Allesley Boughton-Leigh of nearby Brownsover Hall. The restoration amounted almost to a rebuilding of the church, but it was done in a sympathetic manner. In the early 20th century, new stained glass was inserted in the east window. The church was declared redundant on 10 February 1987 and became vested in the Churches Conservation Trust.

The church is constructed in cream-coloured stone, with reddish-brown freestone dressings. The roof is in clay tiles. Its plan is simple, consisting of a nave with a smaller chancel. The nave measures 30 feet (9.1 m) by 24 feet 9 inches (7.5 m), and the chancel 19 feet 6 inches (5.9 m) by 13 feet 3 inches (4.0 m). There is a small brick extension at the northeast corner between the nave and the chancel. The west end is gabled with diagonal buttresses and a string course. The church is entered by a west doorway with a pointed arch, on each side of which are two-light windows. Above these windows are smaller single-light windows, and between them is a gabled bracket holding a bell. There are two two-light windows on the north and south sides of the nave, with a buttress between them. There is a lancet window in the east wall of the nave. The chancel has diagonal buttresses, and a three-light east window. On its north side is a paired lancet window, and on the south is a similar window plus a single lancet.