St. Michael's Church in Ashton-under-Lyne

Ashton-under-Lyne

Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies on the north bank of the River Tame, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines...

  is a Grade I Listed Building. It is one of 116 surviving medieval parish churches in the North West

North West England

North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...

. The church dates back to at least 1262, and a church on the site was mentioned in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

. The church was rebuilt in the fifteenth century and in 1515 at the behest of Sir Thomas de Assheton

Thomas de Ashton (alchemist)

Sir Thomas de Ashton or Assheton , was an English alchemist.Ashton was born in 1403, the son and heir of Sir John de Ashton, of Ashton-under-Lyne, who died in 1428. His half-brother Ralph de Ashton seems to have inherited the main family home, Ashton Hall...

; however little of the previous church remains after it was rebuilt again in the nineteenth century.

See also

• Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester
  Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester
  -See also:*Architecture of Manchester*Conservation in the United Kingdom*Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester*List of tallest buildings in Manchester*Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester-Bibliography:...
  
  
• List of churches in Greater Manchester