Church of St. Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church dating back to the late 11th or early 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th and 17th centuries, and a restoration in 1875. It is constructed of flint with stone quoins and dressings and has a plain tile roof. The church is comprised of a continuous nave and chancel, with a south porch to the nave.

The west end of the nave has a gabled appearance with a 19th-century bellcote. A pointed, plain-chamfered lancet window is present, alongside a blocked round-headed doorway from the late 11th or 12th century featuring small voussoirs carved with a raised diamond pattern. The south elevation features a plain-chamfered pointed lancet towards the west and a tall rectangular 17th-century two-light window with a plain-chamfered mullion towards the east. The south porch is constructed of galleted flint and stone, with a plain tile roof and a broad, gabled form. It has a plain-chamfered round-headed outer doorway with a consecration cross, and the inner doorway has rounded jambs, a segmental head, and a boarded door. The chancel's south elevation displays a rectangular two-light 17th-century window towards the nave, a tall plain-chamfered pointed lancet with a transom, and another 17th-century two-light window towards the east end. The east end features two tall plain-chamfered pointed lancets flanking a central buttress with offsets. The north elevation is largely unfenestrated, except for a 19th-century lean-to vestry with two lancets and a doorway in a 13th-century style. The nave’s north side has three broadly-spaced plain-chamfered pointed lancets.

Inside, the nave has a roof of four crown-post trusses, with chamfered tie-beams, octagonal crown-posts with chamfered rectangular capitals and bases, sous-laces, ashlar-pieces, and a plain-chamfered cornice. The chancel has a 19th-century collar-purlin roof. Two east end lancets share a single chamfered rere arch, with a canted buttress between the lights. The south east chancel window incorporates a deep 13th-century window-seat sedilla with a piscina set within the east arm. The piscina is in a small pointed-arched recess on the east end of the south wall, with an image corbel above the bowl. An octagonal font with a chamfered bowl and plinth is also present, along with a pavement floor in the nave.

Monuments include a slab on the chancel floor to William Rolfe, who died in 1740, his wife, and children (who died between 1747 and 1786), likely erected after 1786. This slab has a broadly scrolled top with two cherubs' heads. A monument on the north wall of the chancel commemorates John Herdson, who died in 1622. It is made of alabaster and features a moulded plinth, a strapwork base-plate with a crowned skull, a recessed rectangular inscription panel flanked by pilasters carved with fruit, bibles, and insignia of death, rosette paterae, an inscribed frieze, a moulded cornice, and an iron bracket above.

The church was declared redundant in 1980.