Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a church with origins in the 12th or 13th century, and largely rebuilt in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a lead roof. The building comprises a west tower with clasping aisles, a 3-bay nave with aisles, a 3-bay chancel with chapels, and clerestories to both the nave and chancel.

The west tower is four-stage, featuring stepped diagonal buttresses and lean-to aisles. A pointed doorway with three moulded orders and a hoodmould is present, above which is a 3-light Perpendicular window with headstops and illegible coats of arms. Belfry openings are 2-light and pointed, and the tower is topped with an embattled parapet and four crocketed pinnacles. The south side has a 5-light Decorated window and a porch with a pointed doorway of three moulded orders, containing a Norman frieze depicting eight animals. The chancel chapel has a priest's door with a 4-light Decorated window to the left and a 3-light Decorated window to the right. The clerestories feature 3-light cusped Perpendicular windows, and the entire aisle and chapel are defined by an embattled parapet.

The north side mirrors the south, with a doorway featuring a coat of arms and a 5-light cusped Perpendicular window. The chapel window displays reticulated tracery. The chancel east end has a 3-light Perpendicular window; part of the south chapel wall has been rebuilt in brick with a 3-light window alongside.

Inside, the chancel reveals evidence of Norman windows and a northern arcade largely rebuilt in 1632, though the eastern arch retains a sunk quadrant moulding and a round respond. The southern arcade is double-chamfered. Ogee-arched aumbries are present in the side chapels, alongside a tall double-chamfered chancel arch. The nave displays complex arcading; the north arcade has double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers, with a nailhead hoodmould and reused Norman head stops. The south arcade features a sunk quadrant moulding on the eastern arch and double-chamfered arches elsewhere. A 17th-century carved wooden font cover exists alongside Royal Arms of 1737 above the tower arch. Two 15th-century defaced alabaster effigies of a knight and lady are also present.