Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael was built in 1875-8, designed by G.E. Street. It is constructed of snecked sandstone rubble with quoins, and has graduated slate roofs. The plan consists of a nave with north and south aisles, a chancel with a north transept and a south vestry.

The west front features a tall four-light window with a plate-traceried multifoil head and a hood-mould that connects to the impost band. The nave features a continuous clerestory arcading with ashlar pilasters and two-centred arches; recessed chamfered windows alternate with blank arches, separated by an impost band. The aisles are broad with shallow-pitched roofs and windows of three stepped cusped lights in quoined surrounds. On the north side, the sillband steps down to deeper windows in the western bays. A gabled porch with a double-chamfered arch and gable coping with kneelers and an apex cross is located in the first bay of the south aisle. At the west end, a small apse has three small cusped windows. The vestry, continuing the south aisle, has a two-centred arched doorway with a run-out band and a three-light east window. The north transept has buttresses and a two-light plate-traceried window. The chancel has paired two-light windows with quatrefoils in the head and moulded reveals, and a three-light plate-traceried east window.

Inside, the five-bay nave arcade is made up of cylindrical columns with wide annular caps and two-centred arches moulded in three orders. There is a string course and an arcaded clerestory where deep double-chamfered window reveals alternate with blind windows. The roof is a tiered queen-strut structure with three-stage arch bracing and unusual brattished through-purlins. The chancel arch incorporates a good early 20th-century screen in Perpendicular style. The chancel contains a pair of wide, unequal arches, housing an organ on the north side and a two-bay south arcade leading to a Lady Chapel with a ribbed barrel-vault wooden ceiling. A carved alabaster reredos is present, and the east window reveals contain statues under crocket canopies. An apsidal baptistery is located under a cusped arch at the west end of the south aisle, and a carved wooden war memorial screen is at the west end.