Church of St Michael (including tower)

The Church of St Michael, including its tower, was built between 1873 and 1876 to the designs of R. Norman Shaw, with the tower added between 1900 and 1901 by John Oldrid Scott. A lean-to western narthex was added in 1930 by W.D. Caröe. The church’s external appearance is conventional, featuring a high clerestory with coupled lancet windows, wider-spaced lancets to the aisles, and a gabled south porch with a triple-chamfered arch.

The chancel windows comprise groups of traceried lancets under relieving arches, with a five-light window at the east and three-light windows on the sides. A War Memorial Chapel is located at the south east, featuring Y-tracery windows designed by Sir T.G. Jackson in 1920. To the north east is a gabled organ chamber and a flat-roofed vestry, with a high chimney, connected by a single-storey link. This link incorporates a traceried, canted bay on the west side to the Church Hall. A splendid, high and massive tower is situated at the south east corner of the nave, featuring tall, coupled two-light belfry windows with two transoms and Y-tracery. It also incorporates polygonal pinnacles on clasping buttresses with many set-offs, a gabled doorway to the south, and a gabled stair-turret to the north east.

Inside, the church features five-bay nave arcades with triple-chamfered columns. The clerestory windows have boldly unmoulded splays, connected at the top by double-chamfered inner arches framed by sharp triangular shafts on corbels. A stringcourse runs below, with a continuous cornice above. The roof is constructed with three posts on a tiebeam, with open canted rafters.

The church contains elaborate, but conventional furnishings, including a pulpit dating from 1889 (sculpted by W.J. Warren with alabaster panels, green colonnettes, and pink marble arches), murals in the chancel painted in 1889 by Cox Sons, Buckley and Co, and a reredos dating from 1884, which is an English altar with the addition of an "Majestas" scene around 1925.

The stained glass includes twenty good aisle windows by Henry Holiday for Powells, circa 1880, an east window by Mayer and Sons of Munich (1882), and a west window by Christopher Whall (1913). Sculpture in the War Memorial Chapel is by Sir George Frampton. The church and Church Hall form a notable group.