St Michael and All Angels Church is a late nineteenth-century church in the settlement of

Partridge Green Partridge Green is a village in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the B2135 road north-west of Henfield. It is in the parish of West Grinstead. Partridge Green takes its name from a family called Partrych who were regist ...

in the parish of West Grinstead in West Sussex. It was built to cater for the then growing population of the village. Ian Nairn, in the Sussex volume of '' The Buildings of England'', approves of the simplicity of this "flint village church" and comments that most "other counties would have had it much fussier". St Michael and All Angels' shares its mission with the parish church of

St George's Church, West Grinstead St George's Church is an Anglican church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, occupying a rural position in the Sussex Weald by the River Adur. The oldest extant part of church dates from the early 11th ...

History

Houses were built in the village in the eighteenth century, and expansion increased after the

Partridge Green railway station Partridge Green was a railway station on the Steyning Line which served the village of Partridge Green. The station closed as a result of the Beeching Axe in 1966 and now forms part of the Downs Link footpath. The station buildings have been ...

was opened in 1861. The settlement was served from 1884 by an iron mission room in nearby Jolesfield. The new church was built in 1890 on a site given by the Rev. John Goring, with the memorial stone laid by Lady Burrell on 30 May 1890. The church was designed in thirteenth century style by the architectural firm of W.G. Habershon and J.F. Fawkner. The church was served by curates until 1946, since when it has been served by the priest-in-charge of West Grinstead.

Description

St Michael and All Angels Church Partridge Green - the Nave

The church consists of a chancel, nave and west tower. Entry is by a south porch. The exterior is constructed of flint with stone dressings. Inside the walls are of exposed brick. The rere-arches of the lancet windows and the tower and chancel arches are of stone. The timber framed roof is described by John Allen as the best feature. The tower has a tiled pyramidal cap.

Organ, fittings and windows

The organ was manufactured by

Conacher and Co. Conacher and Co was a firm of British organ builders based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. History The firm originated with Peter Conacher (1823–1894), who was born in Scotland and who studied as an apprentice organ builder in Leip ...

The font may have been cut from an earlier medieval original. The east window is by C.E. Kempe

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