Church Of St. Michael

The Church of St. Michael is a parish church built in 1816 on a medieval site and remodeled in 1891 by Pritchett. It is constructed of rubble with buttresses made of tooled-and-margined stone, featuring ashlar dressings and a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The church has a four-bay preaching box with a narrower two-bay chancel and a west tower. The 1891 remodeling introduced arcades, a chancel arch, and internal divisions, creating a three-bay aisled nave and chancel flanked by vestries. The design reflects a Free 15th-century style.

The tower features stepped angle buttresses and boarded double doors on the south side, set within a double-chamfered pointed arch with a hoodmould. Above the doors is a cinquefoil-headed window and two-light belfry openings. A moulded string and corner gargoyles are located below the embattled parapet, which has a wrought-iron weather vane at the southwest corner. The body of the church has stepped buttresses at the angles and between the bays, with three-light windows in the nave. The chancel has two cinquefoil-headed lights on the south side, with the eastern light above a priest's door, and two-light windows on each side of the east bay. The five-light east window is set under a coped gable on moulded kneelers, topped with an eight-terminal cross fleury finial. On the north side, there are two boarded basement doors in pointed arches from 1816.

Inside, the church features plastered walls and hammer-beam roofs. The arcades have broad four-centred double-chamfered arches with hoodmoulds, supported by octagonal piers with moulded caps and tall moulded bases. The chancel arch is similar, with foliage hoodmould stops. The nave has a panelled dado, and there is a late 19th-century carved chancel screen, a panelled wood reredos, and a tiled sanctuary floor. A re-set 12th-century pillar piscina from the previous church is present, along with a 1791 wall tablet with an urn dedicated to Rev. Matthew More, and a 1839 wall tablet to William Harry Vane by Davies of Newcastle in the north vestry. An early medieval headstone cross is located in the sanctuary. The east window, installed in 1892, depicts Christ reigning and the Evangelists as a memorial to Harry Vane Milbank, and there is a brass candelabra in the chancel.