Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building with origins in the 12th century, featuring remains and walling from that period, but mainly constructed in the 15th or early 16th century. It is built of rubble with a stone slate roof and consists of a nave and chancel under one roof, a north aisle, a west tower, and a south porch.

The west tower is simple and divided into two stages, marked by a pronounced setback, which likely indicates the early date of the lower stage. This lower stage has flat-headed openings, with the west window being double-chamfered and consisting of two lights. The slimmer upper stage, probably from the 15th century, features rough two-light louvred belfry windows, a corbelled embattled parapet, and water spouts. The eastern face of the tower shows the scar of a steep roof.

On the south face of the nave, there are two straight-headed two-light windows with cusped heads, positioned above a simple stone porch that is socketed for bars to keep sheep out. This porch protects a 12th-century doorway with one unchamfered order and scallop capitals, although the columns are missing. There is also a 19th-century window with three lights.

The north aisle has diagonal buttresses with offsets and a sill weathering. Its windows are straight-headed and consist of three arched lights, except for the west window, which is pointed and features reticulated tracery. The chancel's east window is either restored or from the 19th century, rectilinear, and has three lights with figured label stops.

Inside, the church has an arcade of two bays with an octagonal column and a semi-octagonal east respond, each featuring a crude niche. The nave roof consists of tie beams with angle struts across four bays, with most cusped wind braces still intact. The chancel arch is unmoulded and round, with scalloped caps on the responds. The church also contains a simple bowl font with a 17th-century cover and a simple 17th-century pulpit.