Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 15th century, with significant restoration and additions in 1868. The main body of the church is constructed of squared and coursed rubble, while the tower and south aisle parapet are of squared and coursed dressed stone, featuring flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone copings, and a 20th-century plain tile roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, south tower, south transeptal chapel, north transept, and a north vestry. Windows are predominantly 2 and 3-light Perpendicular style, featuring cusped tracery under pointed heads with hoodmoulds. The chancel includes a Tudor arched, blocked south doorway. The south tower has three stages, set-back buttresses, moulded string courses, a polygonal north-west corner stair turret, and an embattled parapet with corner gargoyles. The south face of the tower has a 2-cusped-light window on the first stage and two stages of 2-light bell openings above, each with cusped heads, quatrefoils, and simple louvres. The second stage of the tower features buttressing that develops into crocketted pinnacled shafts flanking two aedicules with crocketted and fleur de lys decorated canopies. A 19th-century south doorway provides access to the interior, above which is a 15th-century niche containing a 1931 statue of St George. A cast iron building society (I.C.B.S.) plaque on the west wall of the porch records the 1868 restoration. The interior features a wagon roof to the nave. A complex moulded chancel arch connects to arches on either side leading to a small, two-bay transept to the north and the tower and transeptal chapel to the south. An arch between the tower and chapel displays dying imposts. The chancel has a wagon roof, while the chapel roof, restored in 1923, is compartmented. A Perpendicular statue niche is present in the south chapel’s east wall. The nave's south door provides access to an octagonal Perpendicular font with quatrefoil panels, alongside a Perpendicular-style rood screen and pulpit installed in 1916 and 1919 respectively. Several 18th and 19th-century wall monuments are located under the tower. Fragments of medieval stained glass are found in the south chapel’s east window, while later 19th-century stained glass is present in the nave and chancel windows.