Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed building located in Skelbrooke. It is of medieval origin but was extensively rebuilt by Joseph Goddard after a major fire in 1872. The church is constructed from rubble limestone and features red tile roofs.

The west tower has a chamfered plinth and large quoins. It includes a 19th-century west door with a shouldered lintel, and above it is a three-light window that showcases Decorated-style tracery and a hoodmould with head-stops. The tower has pointed, two-light belfry openings that are offset beneath, and a band with carved bosses sits beneath the embattled parapet, which is topped with renewed pinnacles.

The nave consists of three bays and has a chamfered plinth. A gabled south porch features a hooded arch and an old carving of an angel with a shield. To the left of the porch is a single-light window, while to the right are two 19th-century two-light windows with Decorated-style tracery. A buttress projection on the right houses a stair turret. The north nave windows mirror those on the south, with buttresses in between. The gable copings include a cylindrical stack to the north and a gable cross.

The chancel has 19th-century lancets on the south side with foiled heads, and a three-light east window with geometrical tracery. There are four quatrefoil windows in the north chapel, along with gable crosses.

Inside, the nave features a segmentally-pointed tower arch and a truncated stone newel stair built into the south buttress projection. The chancel arch, dating from the 19th century, has trefoil shafts leading to a moulded arch, and there is a 14th-century piscina. A 15th-century double-chamfered arcade leads into the chancel chapel, supported by an octagonal pier with a broach-stopped base. The roofs are from the 19th century, and the stained glass in the west window is from 1885, while the window to the north of the nave was created by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.