Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael, built in 1881 by William White, is a Gothic-style building located in Wandsworth Common. It is part of a group that includes a school, both faced in yellow stocks with stone and red rubber dressings, and features crow-stepped gables. The roofs are tiled, with crocket tiles on the ridges and crow-steps. The church consists of a nave and aisles, with the north elevation showcasing five Gothic-arch plate-tracery windows that have twin lancets and a quatrefoil beneath a dripstone. The upper part of the wall is decorated with a diaper pattern and has a cogged cornice. A laterally placed Gothic-arch door is set within a stepped order surround beneath a dripstone, and the coping above supports a stone crow-stepped gable that frames a relief of St Michael in a canopied niche.

On the east elevation, the polygonal chancel is flanked by aisle gables, each featuring a cusped-tracery window with four lancets and roundels above. The north aisle roof ridge is topped by an open timber bellcote with a slated broach spire. Inside, the nave has wide aisles under separate gables, with light arcades consisting of brick arches on granolith pillars. The apsidal chancel, which is above an undercroft, also has aisles. The roof principals are made of planks bolted together, with significant use of iron throughout.

The two-storey school has a symmetrical entrance elevation with seven bays, articulated by lesenes. The ground floor features a moulded Gothic-arch door surround topped by a gable, with Gothic-arch windows on the left and right, each having traceried glazing bars beneath dripstones. On the first floor, each of the seven windows has a shallow pointed arch head with traceried glazing bars above a cillband. A timber louvre with a saddleback roof rises from the roof ridge.