Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a largely late 13th or early 14th century church, with an earlier doorway, Perpendicular features, and some Victorian restoration work. It is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble with limestone dressings and includes a west tower, a nave with a clerestory and two aisles, and a chancel. The three-stage buttressed west tower has a foiled light in the west wall and more ornate lights in the bell chamber, topped with a parapet. A former nave roof line is visible against the west wall. The south aisle has a parapet and includes a Perpendicular window to the west, earlier windows, one Y-tracery window, a triple lancet window, and a decorated window. A round-arched, chamfered doorway is set within a Victorian, coped gabled porch; above the door is a round, foiled window. The Perpendicular clerestory features paired, square-headed lights with stilted hood moulds. The chancel has a parapet and two Decorated south windows with paired trefoiled lights flanking a priest's door; the east window is Victorian with three lights. The north side is blank. The north aisle is also buttressed, with a parapet, Perpendicular windows featuring ogee-arched lights in square heads, a doorway with a double-chamfered arch and hood mould with corbel heads, and a blank area.

Inside, a C13 tower arch is steeply arched, triple chamfered with two rounded shafts, roll moulded abaci, and an outer hood mould with corbel heads. The nave arcade has three bays, the south probably dating to around 1300, with octagonal responds to the western bay, a piece of earlier wall, and then two further bays including a wide octagonal pier. Capitals and abaci are roll-moulded, and the arches are double-chamfered with hood moulds. The north arcade is similarly designed but with more slender piers. The nave roof is possibly partially Perpendicular, though one tie beam is dated 1777, featuring tie beam and king post construction, the ties supported by struts springing from corbel heads with bosses beneath each king post. A small, 2-centred arched piscina is located in the south aisle, with a fluted drain. The triple chamfered chancel arch is supported on corbel heads rather than piers, and there is a Victorian wood screen with finely wrought tracery, featuring three paired lights with ogee pinnacles and blank traceried panels. A small ogee piscina and an aumbry are located to the south and north of the chancel respectively. Elaborately carved Victorian wood altar rails are present, as is a stone Victorian reredos. Fragments of medieval glass are within the south window of the chancel, displaying floral and emblematic motifs, as well as one Bishop's head. A Jacobean pulpit with two tiers of round arched blank arcading is situated within the church. The font may be Early English, round with no differentiation between base and bowl and recessed lancet decoration. Arms of Queen Victoria are displayed in the north aisle, and a hatchment is present in the south aisle.