Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church, primarily dating to the early 14th century, with alterations and additions from the late 15th century. It was restored in 1848 and re-roofed in 1891, with window restoration work undertaken by H.J. Green, the Diocesan architect. The building is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs, with a lead roof to the south aisle.

The church comprises a west tower, a nave, and a chancel. The west tower is a three-stage, square, unbuttressed structure with ashlar quoins. It contains a three-light 19th-century Perpendicular window and a trefoiled lancet to the ringing chamber. A string course sits below a crenellated parapet. The belfry has two-light cusped windows with quatrefoil vesicas. The south porch is gabled, dating to the 15th century and built with brick and flint on diagonal buttresses. It features a brick, four-centred entrance arch with double hollow chamfer mouldings and semi-circular responds, capitals, and bases, as well as brick side lancets and a parvis window. A double-chamfered 14th-century inner doorway is present. The west window of the south aisle is a three-light cusped intersecting design. Two two-light Y tracery windows are situated on the south aisle, with a similar east window. An east buttress is also present on the south side. A brick priests' door leads to the south chancel, and the east window is a three-light Perpendicular design by H.J. Green, with diagonal east buttresses. A restored two-light Perpendicular north chancel window is positioned under a square head, accompanied by two similar windows to the north nave. Four north nave buttresses of various dates are visible. A blocked north door exists. The east gable of the nave is tile-hung.

Inside, a four-bay octagonal south arcade rests on moulded bases, with polygonal capitals supporting double-chamfered arches. A wave-moulded tower arch has semi-circular responds. There is no chancel arch. A good, late 14th-century octagonal font features annulated engaged columns and moulded capitals and bases. The bowl panels have two-light ogeed tracery. A holy water stoup is located to the east of the south door, with parvis stairs to its west. The nave has a scissor-braced roof from 1891, while the aisle roof is of rafter and purlin construction, also dating to 1891. The chancel roof is similar to that of the aisle. A south aisle chapel is defined by a trefoiled aumbry and a bench sedilia below a window. Blocked rood stairs are present off the chapel. A polygonal pulpit from the early 17th century has circular frieze carvings. An arcaded reading desk from the 17th century has scrolled brackets. Chancel stalls from the 17th century have pierced backs, poppyhead bench ends, and arm rests carved in the form of heads. The porch parvis features three triangular-headed niches to the east wall and two to the west wall.