Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church, now disused, exhibiting features from the 12th, 14th, and 15th centuries. It was reduced in size, probably in the 18th century, partly rebuilt around 1832, and a turret was added in 1890. The building is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has a tiled roof with stone coped gables; the eastern gable features moulded stonework to each side of the ridge and at its base. The turret has an ashlar and lead base, timber roof supports, and a damaged weather vane.

The church’s layout includes a nave and chancel under a single roof, a west turret with a pyramidal roof, and a south porch. It stands on a shallow plinth and is buttressed. The west wall contains a two-light window with cusping and a triangular head. A small lean-to structure, built with ashlar, brick, and tile, with a wooden door, is situated to the north of the south buttress. The north wall incorporates two three-light windows with cusping, triangular heads, and hood moulds. The east wall has a three-light arched window with reticulated tracery, featuring a central circular element above the apex containing three trefoils, all under a hood mould with gauged coursed rubble.

The south wall is punctuated by four arched windows. The easternmost window has three lights with flowing tracery and a hood mould. The centrally located east window has four lights with panel tracery, cusping and a hood mould. The off-centre west window displays three lights with flowing tracery, quatrefoils and a hood mould. The westernmost window, also with three lights, has cusping and sits beneath a triangular arch with a hood mould. The ashlar, coursed rubble, and pantile porch has a stone-coped parapet concealing the roofline; a stone dated 1830 appears above the entrance arch. The interior doorway of the porch features a chamfered arch with a hood mould.

Inside, to the east of the door is a 14th-century piscina with a cusped arch, crocketed hood mould, a single remaining label stop to the east, and a carved head as a finial. The west wall features a single corbel flanked by two larger corbels, above which is a small triangular headed opening. A 14th-century octagonal font stands within the church. Two 14th-century monuments are set into the south wall, partially obscured by a raised floor. The eastern monument is decorated with lozenges containing shields and has a single column at each corner supporting the top. The second monument contains quatrefoils and shields. The roof is of 18th-century kingpost construction, with some surviving 18th-century wall panelling.