Church Of Saint Michael And All Angels

The Church of Saint Michael and All Angels is a church with origins in the 12th century, incorporating elements from the 13th, 15th, and 16th centuries. It is situated on Main Street in Sutton on Derwent. The church is constructed of ashlar with slate roofs, and may include some re-used Roman brick to the chancel.

The building comprises a three-stage west tower, a four-bay aisled nave with a south porch, and a three-bay chancel with a north chapel. The west tower features a plinth and diagonal buttresses. It has a trefoil-headed light under a square head on the second stage and two-light trefoil-headed belfry openings. A crenellated parapet tops the tower. An external stair projection, lit by small oblong windows, projects to the south-east. The west window is pointed with reticulated tracery. The nave has three two-light square-headed windows with ogee tracery and a pointed south door with a continuous chamfer. Four two-light square-headed clerestory openings illuminate the nave. The south porch has a moulded plinth, a pointed door with moulded capitals and jambs under a hood-mould, windows of two trefoil-headed lights under a triangular head and hood-mould, and a 19th century stone slab roof. The chancel incorporates three three-light square-headed windows, a priests' door under a four-centred arch, and a five-light pointed east window under a hood-mould with a raised coped gable on shaped kneelers, culminating in a Celtic cross finial.

Internally, the south porch has bench seats, and the roof exhibits hollow-chamfered transverse ribs. The nave features a double-chamfered tower arch dying into responds. The south arcade consists of cylindrical piers on waterholding bases supporting capitals with lancet leaves, square abaci, and double-chamfered round arches. The north arcade has double-chamfered round arches on polygonal abaci, waterleaf capitals, cylindrical piers, and moulded bases. A pointed double-chamfered chancel arch was added in 1841. A re-set early 12th century round arch on chamfered imposts and plain responds leads to the north chapel, which was rediscovered in 1927. A damaged fragment of an early 11th century cross depicting a seated Virgin and Child, a beast, and interlace ornament is also present. The font is octagonal and dates to the 14th century. The tower chamber contains a mid-14th century panel depicting Saint George and the Dragon.