Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church of 1890, designed by J. A. Chatwin for Earl Cowper. It is built in the 14th-century style, using ashlar with a plain tile roof and a shingled spire.

The church features a chamfered plinth, coped gables with kneelers, and buttresses. A single side wall stack is present. The windows are 14th-century style lancets with intersecting tracery. The church comprises a nave, baptistry, north and south aisles, a north transept, a south-east tower, a chancel, and a south porch. The west end of the nave has a five-light lancet window. The baptistry, a single bay, features two lancets to the north, a triple lancet to the west, and a single lancet to the south. The north aisle has four bays and a double lancet at its west end, with four similar lancets along the north side. The south aisle mirrors this with four similar lancets. The north transept is characterised by two diagonal buttresses and a door on its west side, along with a triple lancet on the north gable. The chancel, two bays in width, includes a double lancet to the north and a four-light lancet at the east end, incorporating a string course, diagonal buttresses, and an inscribed panel referring to a memorial clock dated 1919.

The two-stage tower features moulded string courses, a diagonal east buttress, and an octagonal turret with a crenellated parapet to the west. There is a moulded coped parapet with four gargoyles and a set-back octagonal spire with four lucarnes containing double lancets, topped with a weathercock. The first stage of the tower has a triple lancet to the south. Above, there are cusped double lancets with square headed reveals to the west, south, and east, each complemented by a clock. The second stage has four paired lancets with linked hood moulds, also surmounted by clocks. The south porch has a triple lancet to the west and a chamfered and rebated doorway to the south.

The nave arcades, consisting of four bays, feature round piers with moulded bases and capitals, matching octagonal responds, and moulded arches. The principal rafter roof has a double purl, arch braces on corbels, cusped struts, and wind braces. A late 20th-century screen and doors are present at the west end. The north and south aisles have chamfered arched doorways at their east ends. The south aisle has a shouldered door at its west end. Both aisles are covered by lean-to roofs with arch braces. A moulded and rebated chancel arch features clustered shaft responds and a hood mould.

The chancel north side has an opening containing an organ in a panelled case to the west, while the east end has a sill band and a memorial window by A. Orr, dated 1920. The south side includes an aumbry and an arched opening to a vestry with a glazed screen. A scissor-braced roof is also present. The vestry, organ chamber, west end vestibule, and porch all have scissor-braced roofs.

The church's fittings encompass panelled stalls and desks with open bookstands and shaped ends, plain benches, a traceried panelled octagonal wooden pulpit on an ashlar base, and a panelled octagonal font in the 14th-century style. Monuments include a late 19th-century marble and slate tablet and a crested alabaster tablet dedicated to Earl Cowper, dated 1890.