Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church with a 12th-century tower, a Norman nave and chancel, and later additions including a porch and windows. A 19th-century clerestory was also added. The church is cruciform, with aisles that clasp the west tower, and includes a south porch. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings, a plinth to the chancel, a chamfered plinth to the south transept and porch, and a graduated Lakeland slate roof with flat stone gable copings.

The gabled porch contains a panelled double door set within a moulded 2-centred arch, beneath a niche containing a statue. The three-stage tower has a blocked round-headed west door, with a small round-headed window inserted above it. A slit opening is on the second stage, and the belfry contains round-headed openings with two round-arched lights separated by a central shaft. Clasping buttresses support a pyramidal roof, topped with a weathervane. Renewed lancet windows are paired in the six-bay aisles, and a stepped three-light window illuminates the east. Round clerestory windows are present. Diagonal buttresses define the transepts, and set-back buttresses are visible on the chancel.

Inside, the walls are plastered, with ashlar dressings above a boarded dado. Round piers with waterleaf square capitals support the plain arches of the north arcade, while the south arcade has octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and double-chamfered pointed arches. 19th-century arches lead to the tower aisles and transept; the chancel arch is double-chamfered. The nave has an arch-braced collar and king post roof, while the chancel has a crown-post roof. A north transept was refitted in 1941 as a war memorial. A tomb recess is located on the north side of the chancel, and a wall monument to Thomas Longbridge of Walbottle, who died in 1725, is on the south side, crafted in a classical style with a bust within a broken pediment. Stained glass in the north aisle is by Ballantine and Gardiner, Edinburgh, dating from 1904; the south aisle glass commemorates the Hedley family and their involvement in establishing the bishopric of Newcastle in 1882.