Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael was built in 1910 by Austin & Paley. It incorporates a 16th-century west tower, with the date '1589' reportedly inscribed on a beam from that tower. The church is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble, with an ashlar tower, and has a slate roof. It comprises a west tower, a nave with clearstorey, a chancel under a continuous roof, north and south aisles, and a south transept with a vestry.

The three-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses, a stair turret on the south side, and an embattled parapet. The bell openings have three pointed lights, each set within a Tudor-arched head with a hood. The west window is of similar design. The west doorway has a round arch, hollow chamfered in two orders. Aisle and clearstorey windows have flat heads and cusped lights. The south aisle has four two-light windows, with the two western windows being paired. The north side has similar windows across four nave bays. The western bay of the chancel is aisled and has a three-light window, while the eastern bay has a six-light mullioned and transomed window. A doorway in the western nave bay has a porch-like ashlar surround and is moulded with a pointed head and hood. The east window, flanked by buttresses with offsets, has four cusped lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery and ogee quatrefoils.

Inside, the five-bay nave arcades have pointed arches, hollow chamfered in two orders, with eight-sided piers, four concave on plan, and without capitals. The tower opening has plain reveals and a high pointed arch. Between the nave and chancel there is no arch, although the piers are round, and above them attached shafts on corbels support the roof truss. The two bays of the chancel arcades have a round pier with a capital on the north side and a pier with four of its eight sides ovolo-moulded on the south side. A piscina and twin sedilia have depressed ogee heads. The roof trusses feature braced tie beams, queen posts, and raking queen struts, with intermediate trusses having arch-braced collars. Wall tablets, re-set from a previous church, are present, including one in a gothic style dedicated to James Clarke (died 1845) by F. Webster of Kendal, and the Creed and Lord’s Prayer within an elaborate gothic frame. The east window contains figures of the four evangelists, dating from 1865.