Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church largely dating to around 1500, with some 12th-century work incorporated internally, and heavily restored between 1857 and 1860 by Joseph Clarke. It is constructed of red sandstone with low-pitched roofs. The church includes a north-west tower, an aisled nave with a south porch, and a chancel with chapels extending from the nave aisles.

The crenellated three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses. A west window with intersecting tracery and panel work is present, along with clock faces to the west and east sides. There are two-light bellringer's chamber windows to the north and south, paired two-light bell openings under a single ogee hood mould, and a quatrefoil band below the parapet. Four-light panel-traceried windows are positioned on the aisles and chapels. The north door is topped with a square-topped four-light window. The two-story south porch includes a three-light window above the doorway. Clerestory windows are three-light. The south aisle has a canted west end, while the south chapel features a canted east end. The east end of the south chapel has two panel-traceried four-light windows, and the chancel has a reticulated east window flanked by single-light windows to each side. A five-light panel-traceried window and a basket-arched doorway are found in the east end of the north chapel. Crenellations with crocketed pinnacles stand above the buttresses.

Inside, the nave spans four full bays, and a narrower bay at the east end featuring a late Norman pier and chancel respond in the arcades. The remaining bays are Perpendicular, with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. The nave is topped with a camber-beamed, panelled oak roof, featuring carved bosses. Oak trusses support the roof of the south chapel. The chancel arch has continuous moulding and lacks capitals. Chancel arcades display two four-centred arches to the south and two likely earlier arches to the north. The north chapel includes a basket-arched truss supported by carved-head corbels. A restored screen, dating from the 16th/17th centuries, and incorporating small carvings, separates the chapels; screen overthrows are now located within the tower vestry. One screen panel is inscribed “ANNO DNI 1632: Peter Venables”, and another, from Kinderton Chapel, bears numerous painted heraldic panels. Continental-style stained glass was installed in 1860, and later 19th/20th-century memorial glass is also present. There are stalls and one carved misericord in the chancel on the north side.