3 Best Churches in Crewe, UK

“St Mary's Church is constructed in red brick with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The church's architectural style is Decorated. The church's plan includes a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with an apse, and a southwest tower. The tower has angle buttresses and a pyramidal roof with lucarnes. The bottom stage features windows with geometrical tracery, niches containing statues flanked by lancet windows, and above these are paired lancets. The top stage of the tower contains louvred openings for the bells. The chancel and the gable of the nave include windows with geometrical tracery, while the aisle windows feature Perpendicular tracery, and the clerestory windows are paired quatrefoils.

“St. Michael and All Angels is constructed of red and blue brick with stone dressings and features decorative bands of encaustic tiles. The church is a designated Grade II listed building. The church features a four-bay nave with an apsidal chancel, a south porch, a north vestry, and an octagonal turret at the northeast corner of the nave. St. Michael and All Angels stands on a sandstone plinth, with walls decorated in diaper work and blue brick bands. The gabled porch has a panel depicting Christ's blessing at the apex of the roof. At the west end, a rose window is flanked by round panels depicting the Holy Family and angels.