Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church with a late 12th-century core, significantly altered and extended in the mid- and late 13th centuries, and a mid-14th century south aisle. Further restoration occurred in 1822 and 1872-3 by G.F. Bodley, who heightened the west tower, enlarged the south aisle, and added the porch. The church is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof, with a timber-framed porch.

The west tower features a four-stage design with an embattled parapet and a string course at the upper stages. It includes C19 windows to the bell stage, small triangular-headed lights above the nave roofline, and round-headed and triangular-headed lights in the lower stages. The ground stage has a C19 doorway and a two-light window to the west.

The nave has four clerestory windows on the north and south sides, each with a trefoiled light. The south side includes C19 windows, a decorative gabled timber-framed porch, and a C14 doorway with a two-centred head of two chamfered orders, and a three-light window within the south transept gable. The north side contains C19 windows and a projecting north transept with a cusped three-light window and a trefoil-headed light. The chancel has late 13th-century windows with trefoil-headed lights, a doorway with a segmental head and chamfered jambs, and an east window of three plain lights with a moulded label.

The interior features largely C19 roofs. The organ chamber retains a C14 roof with three open arched-braced trusses and cusped wind-braces. Arcades divide the nave and south aisles, with six bays on the north side featuring shafted piers with moulded capitals and bases and two-centred arches with two chamfered orders. The south arcade is also of six bays, with a C19 addition to the west. A C12 tower arch, reset during a later phase, has a two-centred head and two chamfered orders. The late C13 chancel arch is two-centred with two chamfered orders, where the inner order dies into the responds. A mid-13th century font has an octagonal bowl and capitals with stiff-leaf foliage. A C13 effigy in the south aisle depicts a figure in civilian clothing, missing its head.