Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church dating to the medieval period, with significant restoration work undertaken in 1854 and 1877. It comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, and north vestry. The building is constructed from flint rubble, with the nave, chancel, and porch rendered. The roofs are slate-covered.

The west tower is square, dating to the 15th century and featuring four stages, a crenellated parapet with fragments of pinnacles, and diagonal buttresses to the west and lateral buttresses to the east. Decorative flushwork adorns the plinth, parapet, and buttresses. A moulded west doorway is ornamented with fleurons and crowns, though in a decayed state. The window above is renewed, as are the two 2-light belfry openings.

The nave has 13th-century north and south doorways with plain 2-centred arches, and largely 19th and 20th-century replacements for the Perpendicular-style windows; two south windows have square heads. The south porch has undergone heavy restoration. The chancel includes a small 12th-century window to the north, a cinquefoil-headed lancet with a ballflower-enriched hoodmould, two 2-light Perpendicular windows, and a 4-centre arched Priest's doorway between. A renewed 3-light east window features intersecting tracery.

Inside, the nave and chancel were re-roofed in 1854. The chancel arch sits upon large corbel heads, likely of 14th-century origin. The north east nave window possesses a shafted surround and a canopied statue niche within its east splay. A similar canopied statue niche also appears in the east splay of the central south nave window. The head of the splay of the south west chancel window is ornamented with a band of leaves. A doorway in the vestry retains its medieval door and is fleuron-enriched. Both nave and chancel have cinquefoil piscinas. Evidence of a rood stair remains in the south east nave, with a blocked doorway opposite leading to another. A 15th-century octagonal font is present, although its carvings are lost. A well-preserved early 17th-century pulpit features a bracketed bookboard and a suspended tester; a date of 1620 seems to have been removed from the backboard. Eight plain bench-ends, possibly medieval, are located in the west nave. The chancel stalls incorporate four medieval traceried panels and two poppyhead bench-ends. A medieval misere seat with carved decoration is found in the sanctuary. The nave floor contains an effigy brass memorial to William Corbald and his wife (circa 1490). A 17th-century painted board commemorating Stephen Humfrey and family is in the tower base, and a 14th-century painted figure is on the splay of the south west chancel window. The arms of Charles II are displayed on the north nave wall.