Church Of St Michael Coslany

The Church of St. Michael Coslany is a Grade I listed parish church that is now disused. It dates from the late 14th century, 15th century, and early 16th century. The building is constructed of flint with stone dressings, featuring an ashlar-faced north aisle and chapel, along with brick elements and a slate roof. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a south chancel aisle, and a north chapel.

The four-stage tower, built around 1425, has diagonal buttresses and a west doorway with a two-centre arch that features carved spandrels and a shield frieze. The doorway is adorned with a two-leaf door, each leaf having three panels of cusped tracery depicting birds and dragons, topped by two figures. Above the door is a four-light Perpendicular window, flanked by niches with vaulted canopies and finials. The tower is capped with a crenellated stone parapet that includes a shield frieze and corner pinnacles.

The nave has four bays, with a three-light Decorated quatrefoil west window and a simple 15th-century south door to the right. The south aisle consists of two bays, while the south chancel aisle has one bay. The south aisle features a brick west wall and three four-light Perpendicular aisle windows with four-centre arches and brattishing on the transoms in the outer lights. The tracery pattern is consistent throughout. The south aisle also showcases flush-work with window and quatrefoil motifs, while the chancel includes an east window from 1883.

The north door is notable for its three orders of mouldings, a central attached shaft, and a four-centre arch with a drip-mould. A lancet window is situated in the chancel arch gable. The interior features four-shaft piers with double order mouldings in diagonals and four-centre arches to the arcades. The springing of the arch in the west bay of the south arcade coincides with the brick west wall. There is blind store arcading in the aisles with attached shafts, a tower arch, and a chancel arch without piers. The nave has a scissor-brace roof, while the aisles have flat roofs with arch-braces springing from wall posts. The chancel features an arch-braced roof with braces forming a pointed arch profile, springing from wall-posts with shield corbels. The Thorp chapel includes a stone open tracery screen and tomb.