Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church dating to the 14th century, with fabric surviving from the mid-12th and 13th centuries, a 15th-century north arcade, and a mid-16th-century north aisle. It was largely restored in 1876, when the 15th-century chancel was rebuilt. The church is constructed of squared sandstone with a stone slate roof and consists of a nave, a south porch, a lower chancel, a north tower with a stone spire, a north aisle, a north chapel, and a north vestry.

The west nave window is of four lights with reticulated tracery, which was restored in the 19th century. The west window of the north aisle has four lights, a transom, and tracery under a four-centred head. In the south wall of the nave are three early 20th-century windows of two lights with reticulated tracery under flat heads. Above and to the right of the porch is a window of three lights under a flat head. The gabled porch has a pointed, chamfered outer doorway. The inner doorway is of 15th-century date, moulded, and pointed. To the right of the porch, partially obscured by a buttress, are the remains of a mid-12th-century doorway of two plain orders with angle shafts and scalloped capitals. The south chancel wall has three bays and features three-light windows with tracery under pointed heads. The east window is of five lights with a transom, tracery, and a Tudor-arched head. The east window of the north chapel has three trefoiled lights under a flat head, with a further window above it of three pointed lights under a flat head. The north aisle has four windows of three lights with intersecting tracery under round heads. A pointed window of two lights with restored Y- tracery is at the base of the tower. The tower rises to an octagonal bell stage with openings of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil under a pointed head.

Inside, the north arcade consists of four bays with pointed arches, chamfered in two orders springing from octagonal columns with capitals. To the east is a tower arch, chamfered in three orders dying into splayed reveals. The nave roof is of 16th-century date and has eight bays, with arch-braces down to short wall posts and up to collars with central pendant bosses; straight windbraces and principals joined by a yoke below the ridge. The north aisle roof, of six bays, is similar but has cusped windbraces and no bosses. At the east end of the north aisle is a pointed tower arch, the line of the roof of an earlier, narrower aisle visible above. In the north wall of the tower is a recess with a cusped and moulded arch. Between the north chapel and the chancel are two moulded pointed arches of 19th-century date. A 19th-century tomb chest in a Gothic style sits in a recess with a cusped arch and crocketed gable within the north aisle of the chancel. The 19th-century chancel roof has six bays, with arch-braced collar trusses rising from alternately carved angel corbels. The 18th-century communion rails are turned and fluted, and the elaborately carved 19th-century timber pulpit features tracery and figures.