Church Of St Michael

The Church of St. Michael is a parish church dating to the 13th century, with significant alterations in the 14th, 18th, and 1848. It is constructed of greenstone rubble blocks with limestone ashlar dressings, red brick, and lead roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel.

The mid-14th century west tower has a plinth and 18th-century, three-stage brick diagonal buttresses with greenstone set-offs. A pointed west doorway has a rendered, chamfered head and jambs, a hood mould, head label stops, and a plank door. Above is a pointed window with two cusped ogee lights and vertical tracery. Bell openings with pointed openings and Y tracery are on all four sides, topped by battlements and corner pinnacles.

The north side of the nave has a plinth and two pointed 19th-century windows, each with three cusped ogee lights, mouchettes, and a hood mould. The north side of the chancel has a 19th-century lancet with a hood mould, with 18th-century brick patching to the east. The east end features a pair of 19th-century lancets with a continuous hood mould. The south side of the chancel has 19th-century brick patching and an early 13th-century lancet with a hood mould. A 19th-century doorway with a pointed head, chamfered surround, hood mould, and plank door is on the south side of the nave, flanked by single pointed 19th-century windows with three cusped ogee lights, mouchettes, and a hood mould, alongside a heavily restored 14th-century porch. The east and west walls of the porch each contain a single mid-14th-century rectangular window with two cusped ogee headed lights. A pointed 19th-century south doorway has a chamfered surround and hood mould.

The interior of the porch includes flanking stone benches and a 19th-century south doorway with a pointed head, chamfered surround, and plank door. Four table tombs are located beneath the west window, belonging to members of the Codd family and dated from the second half of the 18th century and the early 19th century.

Inside, the mid-14th century tower arch has a pointed chamfered head and polygonal responds with polygonal moulded capitals. The 14th-century pointed chancel arch has an inner chamfered order resting on 19th-century corbels. A 19th-century screen is present. The chancel is covered by a 19th-century stone quadripartite rib vault supported on angel corbels. A south doorway has a segmental head and moulded surround. A tall, octagonal 19th-century font with a hood is also present. A monument of grey and white marble in the nave commemorates Walter Walesby, who died in 1806. In the chancel are monuments to Francis Walesby, who died in 1772, featuring a cherub, and to Joshua Walesby, who died in 1799, with an urn.