Church Of St Michael

The Church of St. Michael in Bradeston is a parish church that dates back to medieval times, with later additions. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and part of it is rendered, topped with a slate roof. The church features a west tower, a north porch, a nave, a south vestry, and a chancel. The three-stage tower was built between 1440 and 1480, featuring a squared flint base course, a three-light Perpendicular west window, a semi-circular south stair turret, single light sound holes, and two-light belfry openings with remaining tracery on the west side. There is a gargoyle located below the parapet on the west side.

The north porch has a Perpendicular entrance with attached shafts and spandrels, along with two-light windows that have rectangular heads on both the north and south sides. The gable of the porch has a brick parapet. Each side of the nave contains two three-light Perpendicular windows, which feature ogee tracery and Tudor arches. There is a 15th-century north door in the western bay, with a bevelled plank door set in a single splayed opening. A blocked south doorway is made of chamfered 15th-century brick.

The chancel is a single bay with diagonal buttresses and a parapet gable topped with a cross. It has a 13th-century lancet window in the north wall and a two-light Perpendicular window to the south. The east window consists of three lights with Reticulated tracery. There is a 19th-century lean-to vestry attached to the structure.

Inside the tower, there is a 15th-century stair door and a rectangular stone fireplace with a flue. A 13th-century column and capital are embedded in the wall between the south nave windows. The eastern respond features three attached shafts, a base, and capitals with water-holding mouldings. Openings for a rood stair can be found in the north wall, along with a fragment of a dropped sill sedilia in the south chancel wall. A 13th-century piscina with a cusped head and a stone shelf supported by a cusped bracket is also present.

The nave roof is supported by butt purlins, with rafters tenoned into the purlins above a boarded ceiling. Arch braces span between the wall posts and collars. An early 14th-century octagonal font bowl is decorated with incised designs of mouchettes, quatrefoils, and trefoils. There is a monument to Thomas Spencer Frost, who died in 1847, created by T. Gaffin, depicting standing mourning women by an altar. Much of the nave and chancel walls are made of coursed Ferruginous conglomerate, indicating an early construction date.