Church of St Michael and St Mary Magdelene

The Church of St Michael and St Mary Magdalene is a parish church dating primarily to 1866-7, designed by JW Hugall in the Early English style, with some 17th-century brickwork visible in the lower stage of the tower. A late 20th-century extension is linked to the north aisle.

The main structure is built of Bath stone ashlar, while the tower is brick with stone dressings. The steeply pitched roof is tiled, featuring coped gables. The building plan consists of a nave, north aisle, chancel, south chapel, a west tower, a south porch, and the aforementioned extension.

The exterior features windows with plate tracery. The three-stage tower has angled buttresses with stone quoins and pyramidal tops, a trefoil pierced parapet with pinnacles at the angles, and a spirelet on the south-east corner stair turret topped with a “pepper pot” roof. The ground stage window is two-light with a moulded string and a foliage-decorated hoodmould. The middle stage incorporates blank arcading on the west and south faces, while the upper stage has three-light openings partially obscured by a 20th-century extension.

The north front of the chancel has three lancet windows, with square buttresses between the two easternmost windows and a quatrefoil window above them; this is all set with a moulded string. The chancel’s east front features a three-light window with stiff leaf ornament, flanked by angle buttresses, and a projecting plinth with a roll-moulded top. Small, blank lancets are set in the gable apex. The southern front has two lancet windows and a quatrefoil window above.

The south chapel has a gable with a three-light window and a small lancet in the gable apex. A planked door with a pointed head sits within a doorway flanked by two engaged columns with moulded heads and bases.

The south side of the nave features a two-light window and a gabled porch with engaged colonnettes, stiff-leaf capitals, and moulded bases. A lancet window is located to the left of the porch.

The interior is plastered. The nave’s three-bay arcade to the north aisle features pointed arches, columns with stiff-leaf capitals and moulded bases, and a four-bay roof with arch-braced collars and curved struts to the upper collars. Curved windbraces support trenched purlins; the upper braces are straight, and the lower braces are curved. The chancel has a four-bay barrel roof, a ceramic and painted reredos depicting Christ on the cross, and niches with trefoiled heads showcasing depictions of saints.

A wall tablet on the south wall of the south chapel commemorates Sir William Trumbull and his first wife, Elizabeth, while a wall tablet on the south wall of the nave remembers William Trumbell, his two wives, and two daughters. The east window is a stained-glass work by Burne-Jones dating to 1876, depicting the Last Judgement. A window in the north aisle is by Kempe, from 1893.