Church Of St Mary And St Michael

This is a large, Neo-Norman style church, built in 1847. The chancel appears to be a later addition. The exterior is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a moulded ashlar plinth. The roofs are pitched and clad in blue, fishscale slates, with a plain, green slate roof over the chancel.

The church consists of a four-bay nave, a three-bay chancel, and a four-tier, square west tower topped with a squat, pyramidal, tiled roof. The nave windows are round-arched with two lights, incorporating round arched lights and a centre mullion, all with scalloped capitals. Diaperwork is present in the tympana, and there are bold hood moulds and a saw-tooth corbel-table to the eaves. The round-arched south doorway projects, features a gable, and is elaborately decorated with four orders of moulding, three colonnettes with decorative capitals and very elaborate hinges to the door. The chancel windows are small, round-arched, archivolted single lights, with a billet-moulded corbel-table. The east window contains three small round-arched lights, and there is a large wheel window in the gable apex.

The tower has angle buttresses and a small stair tower. The round-arched and heavily decorated west doorway has two colonnettes with scalloped capitals. At the second tier is a four-light window with round arch lights, the outer two being blind. Above this are intersecting over-arches, with similar windows to the north and south. The bell-chamber openings are two-light with a bold surround and colonnettes.

Inside, a four-bay round arcade stretches across each side, supported by broad columns with square bases and varied decorative capitals. An organ is located at the rear, housed under a fine, decorative tower arch on large responds. There is a large, round font with engaged colonnettes. The interior also features open-back pews with gothic finials, a good carved gothic wooden pulpit with linen-fold and traceried panels on a stone base, a wooden commemorative lectern from 1910—depicting an angel holding a reading desk—and an elaborately carved gothic chancel screen with doors. Choir stalls are located within the chancel, while the deep window reveals feature colonnettes and zig-zag decoration. Other features include stained glass, a piscina and sedilia, and close trusses to the chancel roof.