Church Of St. Michael

The Church of St. Michael is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The church features a west tower, a nave with a south porch, and a chancel. The west tower, which is embattled and dates from the 14th century, has two stages and diagonal buttresses. It includes a 19th-century two-light Decorated west window, cusped openings for the ringing chamber, and Perpendicular and Decorated two-light openings for the bell-openings, along with gargoyles. There is a square external stair turret at the southeast corner with cruciform and cusped lights.

The nave has four bays and is buttressed, with diagonal buttresses at the corners. Both the north and south sides feature two three-light Perpendicular windows with panel tracery and one three-light Decorated window. There is a rood stair with a quatrefoil light in the northeast nave bay, along with gargoyles and a parapet. The chancel is buttressed and consists of two bays, with diagonal buttresses at the angles. It has two three-light Perpendicular windows with hood moulds that have figure-stops, and the voussoirs are alternately made of brick and flint.

The south porch, which dates from the 15th century, is unbuttressed and located at the first nave bay. It features some chequerwork at the base, a doorway with castellated abaci, and a niche above the doorway with tracery and shields in the spandrels beneath a square hood mould. The porch has an arch-braced roof. The north and south doorways to the nave have plain jambs that merge into voussoirs with hollows and rolls, and hood moulds above. The medieval south door has an iron door ring.

Inside, there is a narrow tower arch with polygonal shafts and two corbels with angels at the west end. The arch-braced roof is mostly from 1953. The chancel arch also has polygonal shafts. There is an ogee-arched cusped piscina, and the rood screen has been heavily restored between 1906 and 1913, featuring a figure painting from the 15th century now facing the chancel. The pulpit includes some medieval carving, and there are fragments of early coloured glass. The font, likely from the 15th century, has a bowl with a quatrefoil motif.