Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church, now closed, dating back to the 13th century, with significant alterations and rebuilding in the 14th century and a restoration and rebuilding in 1835 by A. J. Wilson. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with yellow brick dressings, and has slate roofs with stone coped gables. The church comprises a western tower, a nave, and a chancel.

The two-stage 14th-century tower has a plinth and an offset to the belfry, topped with a pyramidal slate roof. The west window is a lancet with a trefoil head. The belfry stage features single ogee cusped-headed windows with rectangular chamfered surrounds. The north wall of the nave, built in brick, features a recut 3-light window from the 14th century, with cusped heads to the lights and a flat lintel. Matching 19th-century windows are found in the east and two south nave walls. The south doorway is single chamfered, with a pointed head and hood mould. Above the door is a blank panel with a hood mould.

Inside, the tower arch is single chamfered and pointed, lacking capitals. The 14th-century chancel arch has octagonal responds and capitals and is double chamfered. Most fittings are from the 19th century, with the exception of the font, which has a reused octagonal bowl. Small panels of 14th-century stained glass are incorporated into the upper lights of the east window.

A late 13th-century recumbent effigy of a knight, wearing chain mail, a helmet, and a surcoat, rests in the northeast corner of the nave. His feet rest on a lion, and his head rests on a cushion supported by angels. He lies on a tomb chest with a frieze of quatrefoils containing shields, and an inscription is at the top of the chest. In the west wall of the nave is a tapering limestone tombstone with a Lombardic inscription around the edge, once containing a brass depicting a demi-figure of a knight in chain mail and a surcoat. The brass belonged to Richard de Boselyngthorpe and is one of the earliest military brasses in England. It features a matrix for a vanished shield-shaped panel.