Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church with a 13th-century core that was substantially altered and extended in the 15th century, then restored by Bodley around 1890. It is built of coursed, dressed and squared sandstone with a tiled roof, and comprises a tower, nave and chancel.

The tower dates from the 15th century and has three stages with diagonal buttresses of three stages on the west side only. A moulded coved string runs below the crenellated parapet, set at the buttress head level. The bell chamber has labelled 2-light pointed openings with panel tracery, while the centre stage south side has a single-light opening. The west window is round-arched with four lights; the transoms have round arches to the lights.

The nave is of 13th-century fabric and is divided into four bays by three-stage buttresses. It features deep square-head, cavetto mullioned and transomed 4-light windows with arched lights. Two Tudor-arched single lights sit above a late 19th-century timber-framed gabled porch. The south door is a steeply arched 13th-century opening with fillet mouldings on three tiers of columns, while a pointed door opposite is set in the north side.

The chancel is lower than the nave and dates mainly from the 15th century. It consists of three bays (with a larger east bay) divided by deeply rebated three-stage buttresses. The windows are 3-centred-arched, cavetto mullioned and transomed with four lights; the lights have trefoil heads and some panel tracery. The window cills continue as strings. The restored east window is a 5-light pointed design. A pointed priest door sits beneath the centre bay on the south side.

The interior features a pointed moulded arch leading to the chancel. The 19th-century nave roof has ties, king posts and diagonal braces to boarding decorated with circle motifs. The chancel has brattished ties and ogee bracing to the trusses, with boarding featuring cusped decoration. A black and white marble floor of Bodley's design is stepped down to the chancel.

The 13th-century font is a stone circular bowl dying into columns at the base. The piscina and sedilia are trefoil-headed and comprise four bays. A late 19th-century oak pulpit with figured decoration stands in the church. The monument to Mrs Griffiths, who died in 1641, is a stone work showing a kneeling woman set between pilasters under break-fronted cornices with an oval panel below. The east window is by Ward & Hughes.