Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a complex building with origins in the late 11th century, the main body dating from the 14th century, the tower from the late Perpendicular period, and a south porch and some windows from the 17th century. It was restored in 1851. The church is constructed of ashlar red sandstone with a purple tile roof, except for the Welsh slated chancel and porch. It comprises a 3-bay nave and 3-bay lower chancel, a 6-bay north aisle and chapel in one range, a 3-stage west tower, and a south porch.

The simple gabled porch has a 2-light stone-mullioned window and contains stone benches and knife sharpening slots. The Norman south door has scalloped capitals; it is fitted with a studded oak door with 4 vertical rails and long iron strap hinges. The nave has 3-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows. The chancel has buttresses, a 2-centred arched priest's door, and mullioned windows with cusped lights. The chancel and aisle chapel each have a 3-light east window with reticulated tracery and label moulds. The tower has diagonal buttresses and bands at the first and second floors featuring carved faces, a 3-light west window, and louvred bell openings. A band with gargoyles supports an embattled parapet.

Inside, a 4-bay arcade separates the nave from the north aisle, with double-chamfered 2-centred arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals. The roof is arch-braced collar, sprung from wooden brackets. A tall tower arch is set on semi-octagonal responds, and the chancel arch is of wooden construction on 19th-century stone angel corbels. The chancel has a 2-bay arcade to the aisle chapel with chamfering on the plain piers. A heavy, early 18th-century turned-baluster communion rail is present. Oak box pews are throughout, with 2 larger family pews in the north aisle, where a raised 18th-century pulpit with a reader’s desk is located. In the rear of the aisle is a churchwardens' pew with a panelled lower portion with reeded rails dated 1675 and a hood on tall turned balusters dated 1709. Some 14th-century stained glass remains in the tracery of the east windows of the chancel and aisle chapel and in the west window of the tower.