Church Of St Michael And Our Lady (Wragby Parish Church)

The Church of St Michael and Our Lady, also known as Wragby Parish Church, dates to 1533 with subsequent restoration. It is built of coursed squared sandstone with a stone slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave and chancel with continuous north and south aisles, all executed in the Perpendicular style.

The unbuttressed west tower features a chamfered plinth, a two-centred arched west doorway with two orders of hollow moulding and a hoodmould. A three-light west window contains Perpendicular tracery and a hoodmould. Above this is a niche with a cusped ogee head and a finial, flanked by two carved wheel patterns on each side, and a dripmould to the belfry stage. The belfry has two-light louvred windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds, and is topped by an embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles.

The four-bay nave has a clerestory of four deeply-recessed square-headed windows, each with three arched lights, hollow spandrels, and hoodmoulds. The aisles are buttressed and have deeply-recessed windows of three cusped lights with Perpendicular tracery, hollow-moulded reveals, and hoodmoulds, all with embattled parapets. A gabled porch is located in the first bay of the south aisle, featuring a two-centred arched outer doorway moulded in two orders, with a hoodmould featuring figured stops, a dripmould following the gable, and a high embattled parapet with a sundial mounted in the apex over the doorway. The chancel has a large transomed east window with cusped lights and Perpendicular tracery.

Inside, the nave and chancel arcades consist of double-chamfered two-centred arches resting on octagonal columns with moulded caps. The nave features a kingpost roof, while the chancel has a coffered ceiling with moulded beams and carved bosses. A Latin inscription on the wallplate in the chancel commemorates Prior Alured (Comyn), the penultimate prior of the Augustinian Priory of St Oswald, noting that he "caused this choir to be built the ninth year of his Priorate and in the year of Our Lord 1533.” A cylindrical Norman font with zig-zag decoration, originally from Auburn near Bridlington and moved in 1830, is also present. The church contains a Flemish carved reredos, a wall monument to Sir Rowland Winn (4th baronet) by Flaxman from 1806, a pulpit with 17th-century Venetian carved panels in Turkish boxwood, with a sounding board, hatchments of the Winn family (in the chancel) and the Arms of Charles II, and an 18th-century organ case.