Church Of St. Michael And All Angels

The Church of St. Michael and All Angels is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant alterations in the 19th century. It is constructed of flint with limestone dressings, and has slated roofs with a plain-tiled porch. The church includes a west tower, a nave, a chancel, a south porch, a north transept, and a vestry.

The round west tower’s upper stage was rebuilt using gault brick dressings and a castellated parapet. A 19th-century window punctuates the west face. The south porch is of the 15th century, featuring a slate panel plinth within limestone dressings. Diagonal, staged buttresses with flushwork panels are visible on the south gable. The doorway has attached polygonal shafts and a dripmould arch with shields in the spandrels. A niche above the arch is topped with crocketed pinnacles and a shield bearing arms below a pedestal. The south wall of the nave contains two 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, one potentially original; stilted hood moulds with headstops are above the openings, and the bays are separated by staged buttresses.

The chancel, dating to 1864, has paired lancet windows with quatrefoil heads, arched and cusped transoms, and a scalloped eaves course. A parapeted gable ends in a cross-finial. A projection marks the location of the rood stair at the south-east corner of the nave, and clasping-buttresses are at the east gable. A 3-light east window is also from the 19th century. The lean-to vestry adjoins the north side of the chancel, featuring a 3-light, segmental-headed east window, and a tapering octagonal chimney stack to the north-east. The north gable of the transept has a 4-light window, with a small curved triangular window above. A 2-light 19th-century Perpendicular style window is in the east wall of the transept, with a doorway centrally placed in the west wall. A 15th-century 2-light window with headstops sits in the north wall of the nave, alongside a flanked buttress and a north doorway.

Inside, the nave has a scissor-braced roof with arch-braces on wallposts, supported by head-corbels and a brattished cornice. The rood stair is at the south-east corner. The 14th-century tower arch has engaged shafts and a triple-chamfered arch. A twin-arched opening leads to the transept, featuring a central marble shaft resting on an octagonal base with stiff-leaf capitals. A 19th-century roof has arch-braced principals on head-corbels. An elliptical arched opening connects to the vestry on the east wall. The chancel's interior is entirely 19th century, with an arch-braced roof resting on foliage corbels and internal shafting to the window openings. The octagonal font has lions around the stem and alternating roses and shields around the bowl, atop an octagonal basestep bearing an inscription.