Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a Decorated Gothic style church constructed between 1855 and 1886, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is built of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and a 20th-century pantile roof. The church comprises a nave with a north aisle, a chancel, a north-western porch, a south-eastern vestry, and a north-eastern organ chamber.

The north face of the nave has four bays, featuring a projecting plinth. A gabled projecting porch is situated in the second bay from the right, incorporating columns, a moulded archway with a hood mould and label stops, pilasters to the corners, and a trefoil to the gable filled with foliage. A stone cross surmounts the gable, with ashlar springers and coping. The porch has stone benches and deeply chamfered window embrasures with a scissor-beam roof, and a moulded door surround. Three geometrical windows, each of two lights with trefoil heads and encircled quatrefoils, flank the porch. These windows rise into gabled dormers with ashlar coping. A section of nave walling extends behind the aisle roof, devoid of openings. A bellcote, containing a bell, is situated on the eastern gable-end of the nave. The western end features a two-light window with trefoil heads and four dagger ornaments at the apex, alongside a two-light window to the end of the nave with a trefoil and a hood mould with label stops. The southern side presents four bays of two-light windows, each with trefoil heads and encircled quatrefoils. The chancel has a lean-to on its southern side, housing an arched window with a trefoil light above. Alongside this is a two-light window with a cinquefoil at the apex, and the eastern window is of three lights with trefoil heads and encircled trefoils at the apex, topped by a canopied niche in the gable. The north side includes the organ chamber with two lancet windows and a two-light window with trefoil heads.

The interior of the nave features a four-bay northern arcade with circular piers and foliate capitals, supported by a continuous hood mould with foliate and figurehead label stops. A corbel table runs along the top of the wall, with chamfered corbels supporting ashlar posts to the eaves. A richly moulded chancel arch contains a 16th-century font with an octagonal body and blind tracery on the sides.