Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building located in Wheathill, Silvington. It dates from the 12th and 14th centuries, with additions and alterations from the 17th century and a restoration in the 19th century. The church is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features plain-tile roofs.

The layout includes a chancel, a nave with a south porch, and a west tower that is asymmetrically positioned against the nave. The nave has been extended into part of the chancel, resulting in two widths.

On the exterior, the chancel has restored paired cusped lancets on both the east and south sides. The north door of the nave is blocked, revealing a 12th-century round arch. There are two restored paired cusped lancets on both the north and south sides of the nave. The south doorway features a plain tympanum under a bold roll-moulding set in a recessed semicircular panel, with scalloped capitals and cable-moulding. The column shafts are set in recesses, with a 12th-century base to the west and a modified later base to the east. The door is studded, boarded, and cross-boarded, equipped with iron strap hinges, and is dated 1679. The south porch is a tiled gabled structure with a round-arched entrance in stone walls, dated 1662. The plain late 12th-century tower has a Transitional west lancet and restored battlements.

Inside, the church features plastered ceilings and walls, with a restored pointed chancel arch. There is 17th-century carved timber panelling around the altar and a late 12th-century pointed single-stepped tower arch set on hollow chamfered abaci and debased flat-leafed capitals. Below this arch, a diagonal inset cuts across the stepping of the responds. The church also contains a plain circular font from the 12th century and an armorial tablet commemorating Edward Mytton, who died in 1683. An inscription over the south porch entrance reads: "This porch was built by John Hil, Gent and Ursula his widow 1662."