Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a private chapel originally built for the Tunnard family at Frampton House, and now serving as a Chapel of Ease. It was constructed in 1863 in the Geometric Decorated style by James Fowler. The building is of rock-faced limestone ashlar with plain ashlar dressings, and a plain tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. The church comprises a nave with a western bellcote, a facetted chancel, a south porch, and a vestry.

The west end features three stepped buttresses and a three-light window. The octagonal bellcote rests on a moulded corbel with foliate decoration. The open bell chamber has columns with foliate capitals, supporting a small spire decorated with zigzag motifs to its base and a single lucarne on each of its four main faces. The north side has two two-light windows. The gabled vestry has a two-light window with a shafted central mullion, and an octagonal chimney stack with a gablette and fish-scale decoration to its north side. The facetted chancel has five lancets with trefoils in the heads. The south side of the nave mirrors the north with two two-light windows. All windows are topped with hood moulds, incorporating foliate stops and geometric tracery. The gabled porch is characterised by stepped buttresses and decorative gables. The outer doorway is trefoil headed, with shafted reveals and leafy decoration in the spandrels, whilst the inner doorway is pointed.

Internally, the walls consist of red brick with ashlar bands and polychromatic rear arches. A blank quatrefoil frieze sits below a dentilated cornice. The chancel arch arises from triple marble wall shafts, foliate capitals, and a moulded arch. A pointed doorway and arch in the north chancel wall leads to the organ chamber, connected to a pulpit staircase that emerges through pointed arches with a central marble shaft to an octagonal ashlar pulpit with foliage at the rim. The chancel floor is tiled, and incorporates a tiled text to the cornice, along with a reredos. Contemporary stained glass is present in the chancel. The church contains a brass corona set with semi-precious stones en cabochon in the chancel, and an octagonal limestone font with decorated quatrefoils to its sides upon an octagonal base with marble shafts.