Church of St Michael and All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a church with a 15th-century west tower; a south porch built in 1882-1883 by G.E. Street; and a nave, chancel, and vestry rebuilt after a fire in 1950, between 1952 and 1955, to designs by Bernard Miller. The church is constructed of ashlar with tile roofs. It is built in the Decorated Gothic style, with Miller's work taking a free interpretation of the Gothic style.

The two-bay Lady Chapel has a projecting gable with a cross and a coped parapet. It features round windows and a four-light east window, accompanied by a smaller projection with a southern entrance. The six-window vestry range to the north has two-light, straight-headed windows, and a northern entrance with overlight and keystone. The aisles feature three gabled windows of three lights with flanking blind lights between gabled buttresses. The south porch has a coped gable with a cross, an arch that dies into its jambs between diagonal buttresses, a rib vault, and an inner entrance of two orders. The clerestory has seven two-light, segmental-headed windows. A south-east bell turret and stack are also present.

The two-stage tower has a moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, a three-light west window with renewed tracery and hood with beast stops – similar stops to the top stage sill courses – and two-light, louvred bell openings. There is a top cornice with gargoyles and an embattled parapet, along with north and south quatrefoils below the bell openings with cornices.

Inside, the nave arcades are supported by squat piers with foliate capitals and feature deep-arch-braced oak roofs, with the aisle roofs featuring an inverted hip form. The altar is centrally placed in the crossing, with the Lady Chapel replacing the traditional chancel and screened by a low wall that includes a pulpit. This screen was replaced by an openwork oak screen in 1985. Hanging bell-form lights are also present. Most furnishings were designed by Miller, and his emblem of a bee can be seen on the altar rails. A round font with mosaic decoration by G. Mayer-Marton reflects Miller’s preference for more theatrical motifs. The east window is by G Cooper-Abbs of Exeter.

Bernard Miller, known for his association with the Liverpool School of Architecture, drew inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement in the church’s design, which features a broad, light form and reticulated Gothic detailing reminiscent of E S Prior's St Andrew's, Roker. This church shares stylistic similarities with the later work of George Pace.