Church Of St Michael

A parish church at Broome, the fabric is mainly from the 15th century, with a 14th-century chancel. The building is constructed of flint with limestone dressings. The nave and porch have plain tile roofs, while the chancel roof is covered in black glazed pantiles. The church comprises a west tower, nave, south porch, and chancel.

The square 15th-century west tower is distinguished by staged diagonal buttresses, with a base course of flushwork panels displaying shields set into the buttress bases. The west doorway features a square drip mould decorated with tracery and shields in the spandrels. Above the doorway runs a frieze of shields and roses set within quatrefoil fields, which forms the sill of a tall three-light west window. A canopied niche sits above the window head. The tower has square traceried sound holes above a string course of the first stage, though the tracery has been removed from the bell openings. The tower terminates in a double stepped castellated parapet.

The south porch is entirely rendered over, obscuring many details. Its gable has staged diagonal buttresses, and both the east and west window openings are blocked. The entrance arch has been rebuilt in red brick.

The nave and chancel each have two three-light windows with Perpendicular tracery on their south walls. These windows feature elliptical heads and stilted hood moulds on headstops. Staged buttresses divide the bays between windows. In the chancel's south wall is a small 14th-century priests' doorway, positioned to the east of the centre buttress. The chancel's east window has three lights with cusped Y-tracery, decorated with ballflower ornament to the hood mould and headstops.

The chancel's north wall contains one two-light window with cusped Y-tracery, and a memorial tablet mounted on corbel brackets in the eastern bay. No inscription is visible on the tablet. An earlier north doorway, now masked and blocked by the central buttress, can still be traced. A crudely-built stair turret occupies the angle between the nave and chancel.

The nave's north wall holds two three-light Perpendicular windows. A north doorway with a plain chamfered reveal is present but blocked and rendered over. A stoup stands in the northeast angle of the porch. The south door is probably 15th-century and retains its original ironwork.

The nave and chancel ceilings are plastered over. The chancel ceiling is divided into panels by roll-moulded ribs set against a cornice. The nave ceiling features a moulded timber cornice. The tower arch is tall and narrow, with arch mouldings that die into plain chamfered responds. The nave walls are plastered and marked out in ashlar courses. Two roundels of old glass remain in the head of the nave's south-west window. An old corbel head is set into the north-west corner of the nave; an opening leading to road stairs has been blocked.

The 14th-century chancel arch has a double chamfered profile with polygonal responds. Immediately to the east of this arch is a narrow blind arched recess. The north chancel window is set within a wide arched opening, retaining remains of a splayed stone sill or string course. The north doorway is blocked; its arch retains a continuous roll moulding. An earlier arched opening is cut through by the south-east chancel window; remnants of its reveal include attached keeled shafts with stiff-leaf capitals and part of a keeled roll-moulded arch. The sedilia have a stepped sill, and a square-headed recess containing a piscina is located in the south-east corner of the chancel. The south-west chancel window is also set into and cuts through an earlier, wider arch.

The chancel floor contains 17th-century memorial slabs. A notable wall monument to John Fowle, who died in 1732, displays putti on an open pediment supported by consoles. Remains of a brass memorial featuring lettered scrolls and shields appear in the east reveal of the south-east nave window.

The octagonal font stands on a step decorated with quatrefoil ornament to the risers. Four lions are positioned against the stem, and a later bowl decorated with shields crowns the font.