Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church dating back to the 14th century, with significant additions and alterations in 1842 and 1861. Built of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings, it features lead roofs with stone coped gables, and plain coped parapets to the aisles. A porch has a plain and fishscale tile roof.

The church comprises a west tower, an aisled nave, and a chancel. The three-stage west tower is divided by chamfered string courses, with angle buttresses, battlements, and pinnacles. A two-light window sits above a pair of trefoil-headed lancets, and similar two-light bell openings are present on each face. The tower is believed to have been rebuilt in 1861.

The north aisle, dating to 1842, contains two-light "Dec style" windows with hoodmoulds, one each to the east and west and two to the north side, with angle buttresses. A carved 12th-century stone, possibly from a lintel depicting beasts and birds, has been reset into the east wall. The south aisle is original to the 14th century, with a 3-light east window featuring three lancets intersecting to form an elongated quatrefoil. The west window is a similar two-light design with cusped Y-tracery. A gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses and a 2-light window with a distorted quatrefoil.

The chancel is 14th century, with diagonal buttresses, a blind north wall, and a segmental pointed-arched east window of three cusped lancet lights, with a hoodmould and head stops. The south side has two 2-light windows with segmental pointed arches and crude cusped lights, also with hoodmoulds on head stops. Between these windows is a 13th-century priest's door with chamfer and continuous roll moulding, also with a hoodmould. The chancel and aisle windows are deeply set within a broad chamfer. A south doorway has a chamfer and roll moulding.

The south arcade consists of two bays with an octagonal pier and double chamfered arches that blend into the imposts. The north arcade mirrors this with octagonal piers and semi-octagonal responds, also featuring double chamfered arches. The chancel arch is double chamfered and lacks capitals. The interior contains box pews in the nave and aisles, with simple Gothic tracery in the panelled ends. An open Gothic arcaded west gallery rests on two slender iron columns. Pews and gallery are likely from 1842.

Memorials include a plain tablet to Arthur Shevington (circa 1850) by Hall of Derby, an oval tablet to William Pegge (circa 1768), a large tripartile Gothic memorial with texts under crocketed ogee canopies (circa 1847) also by Hall, and a tablet to Frederick Corfield (circa 1883) by R Drake of Nottingham. A memorial to Honora Michell (circa 1864) is also by Hall. The chancel south wall incorporates a trefoil-arched piscina. Three identical tablets from circa 1850, also by Hall, are located in the south aisle. The south aisle contains a dado made from Jacobean panelling dated 1649. A trefoil-headed piscina is set within the south aisle. The octagonal font is decorated with shields and tracery motifs. A late medieval incised slab commemorating a priest is set into the chancel floor.