Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael was built in 1908 by Austin and Paley. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and red tile roofs. The church comprises a nave and chancel unified as one space, with north and south aisles, a south porch, an uncompleted south tower, a south chapel, and a north transept with an attached vestry. A recent parish hall attached to the north aisle is not of special architectural interest. The design is in the Perpendicular style, incorporating Arts-and-Crafts influences.

The nave has ten segmental-pointed two-light clerestory windows on the north side, seven on the south side, all with two-stage traceried heads, stepped parapets at the west end, and a large five-light west window with stepped tracery and brattished bands. A square stair-turret is located at the southwest corner. The aisles feature square-headed mullioned windows, mostly of three lights, with alternating mouchette tracery, some of which are now obscured by a later addition to the north aisle. The porch has a moulded segmental-pointed doorway with a hoodmould, flanked by unusual drum-shaped angle buttresses, a string course, and a high parapet raised over a triangular-headed traceried panel depicting St Michael. The uncompleted tower is square, with a tall stage, plain square angle buttresses, and a southwest stair-turret. It features a large segmental-pointed south doorway with a moulded surround, double doors with traceried panels and ornamental strap-hinges, short bands of blind arcading, a large two-centred arched five-light traceried window set to the left, and a shallow pyramidal roof. The chancel has three clerestory windows on the south side, mirroring those of the nave, and a short, canted, full-height sanctuary with buttresses flanking a large segmental-pointed east window of one-by-three-by-one lights with stepped two-stage tracery, surmounted by a plain parapet. The south chapel has two side windows matching the aisle windows, an embattled parapet with blind-arcaded upstands, and an arched four-light east window with elaborate tracery including brattishing. The north transept (organ house) has windows similar to those of the nave, while the single-storyed vestry, which wraps around it, has various windows mirroring the aisle windows.

Inside, five-bay arcades feature octagonal columns with moulded capitals and moulded two-centred arches. The clerestory windows are paired within segmental-arched openings. The roof has kingpost trusses with curved struts passing through a wagon-roof ceiling. Semi-octagonal responds replace the chancel arch, displaying tracery panels and surmounted by large wooden angels with outspread wings. A two-bay arcade leads to the north transept of the chancel, with a lower arcade connecting to the chancel aisle and then a three-bay arcade to the chapel.