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}} in ),| closed date = | demolished date = | capacity = 600| length = | width = | width nave = | height = | diameter = | other dimensions = | floor count = | floor area = | spire quantity = | spire height = | materials = Ashlar sandstone, slate roofs| parish = Kirkham | deanery = Kirkham| archdeaconry = Lancaster| diocese = Blackburn| province = York| rector = | vicar = Rev Rick Bunday| curate = | priest = | asstpriest = Rev Kevan Thorn| minister = | assistant = | honpriest = | deacon = | seniorpastor = | pastor = | abbot = | chaplain = | reader = Alan Sawyer| organistdom = | director = Edward Rugman| organist = | organscholar = | chapterclerk = | laychapter = | warden = Caroline O'Brien Caroline Wordsworth| flowerguild = Christine Lever| musicgroup = | parishadmin = Barry Dann| serversguild = | logo = | logosize = }} St Michael's Church is in the town of Kirkham, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II * listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Blackburn, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the deanery of Kirkham. ==History== The earliest evidence of a church on the site is in 684 AD. Kirkham was one of the oldest foundations in Lancashire and one of only three listed in the Doomsday Book as existing in Amounderness. This hundred was part of the vast possessions of Roger earl of Poictou and the church was held by the Priory Church of St. Mary, Lancaster. William of York (died 1154) issued a charter to return the church to Shrewsbury Abbey. In a later charter, dated 5 December 1280, King Edward I conveyed the advowson of Kirkham to the abbott and convent of Vale Royal Abbey which held the church until the Dissolution in the reign King Henry VIII. It was then given to the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford.〔Porter, J. MRCS, LSA (1878) ''History of the Fylde of Lancashire'', Fleetwood and Blackpool, W. Porter and Sons Publisher, Chapter II – Ecclesiastical History.〕 The first recorded vicar, in May 1239, was Will de Ebor, also described as "Cancus de Ebor" and said to have been appointed by Richard Duke of Cornwall.〔Porter, J. MRCS, LSA (1878) ''History of the Fylde of Lancashire'', Fleetwood and Blackpool, W. Porter and Sons Publisher, Chapter IV – The Vicars of Kirkham.〕 The first christenings recorded in the parish register are those of Thomas Sharrock and Henry Cowbron in March 1539.〔Porter, J. MRCS, LSA (1878) ''History of the Fylde of Lancashire'', Fleetwood and Blackpool, W. Porter and Sons Publisher, Chapter VI – The Church Wardens and the Parish Registers.〕 Porter also notes that the monumental inscriptions in the church ".. are not either very ancient or very numersous", with the oldest being that of Richard Clegg, M.A., made vicar on 22 June 1666, let into the floor of the vestry.〔Porter, J. MRCS, LSA (1878) ''History of the Fylde of Lancashire'', Fleetwood and Blackpool, W. Porter and Sons Publisher, Chapter VII – The Monumemts and Inscriptions in the Church and Churchyard at Kirkham.〕 The fabric of the present church dates from 1822 when the nave, designed by Robert Roper, an architect from Preston, was built. The cost of the nave was £5,000 (equivalent to £}} in ). In 1843–44 the steeple, designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe, and built in Longridge stone, was added at the west end. The foundation stone for this was laid on 21 November 1843 by Thomas Clifton of Lytham Hall. In 1853 the chancel was rebuilt, probably by Joseph Hansom, to make the altar visible from the nave.〔 The north and south galleries were removed in the middle of the 20th century and the area under the west gallery has been turned into a separate room.〔 In 2004 it was discovered that the spire had developed structural problems because the iron ties reinforcing the stones had corroded. An appeal to repair the spire was launched. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Michael's Church, Kirkham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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