Church Of St Mary And St Michael

The Church of St Mary and St Michael is a Roman Catholic church built between 1857 and 1858 by architect E.G. Paley. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features slate roofs. The church includes a west tower, a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, a north aisle with a pitched roof, and a north porch.

The tower is designed with diagonal buttresses, an octagonal stair turret topped with a stone spirelet, and an embattled parapet. It has paired bell openings that contain two cusped ogee lights beneath a pointed head. The west window consists of three cusped lights under a pointed head with Geometric tracery, while the west doorway features a moulded pointed arch. The north aisle has five bays to the east of the porch, separated by buttresses. The left-hand window in this aisle has two trefoiled lights under a pointed arch, and the other windows also have two trefoiled lights under pointed heads with quatrefoils. The south nave windows are made up of two lights with paired trefoiled heads. The east chapel window has two lights, and the chancel window features five lights, both with pointed heads and Geometric tracery.

The porch is supported by diagonal buttresses, has a steep roof, and includes a doorway with a moulded pointed arch. Inside, there is a five-bay arcade of pointed arches, chamfered in two orders, supported by round columns with capitals. The chancel arch is moulded and has clustered shafts as responds. The tower arch is pointed, with its lower part filled by a timber screen that supports a gallery. The nave boasts an open timber roof with cusped windbraces, trusses featuring curved braces to the collars, and straight braces from the collars to the principals, along with a collar plate. The aisle roof is constructed with scissor-braced rafters, while the chancel has a waggon roof with dormer windows on each side. A moulded pointed arch separates the chancel from the north aisle, and the east windows retain their original glass.