Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a church dating back to the 13th century, with some remains from the 12th century and additions from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was restored in 1887. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs, and comprises a nave with a north aisle and a lower chancel, a north chapel under a pitched roof, north and south porches, and a north tower.

The west wall features a 13th-century lancet aisle window and a restored window with a pointed head and trefoil. To either side of the south porch are lancet windows. The gabled south porch is from the 15th century, with a moulded pointed outer arch. The north aisle has a 19th-century lancet window, partly within a dormer, to the east of the porch. The porch itself is from the late 14th century, with a moulded pointed outer arch, and an early 16th-century inner doorway with a Tudor arch. The south wall of the chancel is divided into three bays and has windows, each with a single cinquefoiled ogee light. The east window is from the 15th century, comprising three trefoiled lights under a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery. The north chapel’s east window is similar. A lancet window is set within the north wall of the chapel. The north tower has two lower stages dating to the late 13th century, with the upper stage appearing to be from the 14th century. It includes angle buttresses to the lower stage and an embattled parapet. The north doorway is chamfered with a pointed head, and the bell openings are chamfered lancets.

Inside, the north arcade consists of four bays with pointed arches, chamfered in two orders, springing from round columns with moulded capitals and bases. Two of the capitals are carved with stiff-leaf decoration. The nave roof, partly restored in the 19th century, features scissor-braced rafters with a moulded longitudinal plate attached at their intersection, and three cambered tie beams. The chancel arch is pointed and chamfered in two orders, springing from semicircular responds with a fillet. A doorway is located to the north of the arch, formerly leading to a rood loft. The three-bay arcade separating the chancel and the north chapel has pointed arches, chamfered in two orders, springing from round columns with moulded capitals and bases. The chancel has a scissor-braced rafter roof. A recess with a trefoiled head is set into the north wall of the chancel. The communion rails have turned balusters of an early 18th-century style. The 15th-century font is octagonal, with carved tracery decoration and a moulded and carved base. Elaborate wall tablets from the late 17th and early 18th centuries are attached to the east and south walls of the chancel.