Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is an Anglican parish church, largely dating from 1861, though the west tower was built in 1484. It was designed by G.B. Gabriel. The church is constructed of ashlar for the tower, snecked rubble elsewhere, with freestone dressings and slate roofs. It comprises a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, chancel, a south chapel, a north vestry, and a north organ chamber. The architectural style is Perpendicular.

The four-stage tower has a plinth, set-back buttresses, a string course to each stage, and a polygonal north-east stair turret. The first stage features an ornately moulded pointed arch to the door, under a dripmould with regal stops. Above the door is a pointed five-light window under a dripmould with lozenge stops. Each face of the upper stages has a similar two-light window under a dripmould. The fourth stage is predominantly blank, with louvred openings and where the buttresses reduce to attached shafts. Above this is a complex pierced and embattled parapet with central finials and hollow, pierced, square, four stage corner turrets with flying buttresses, parapets and crocketed caps. The remainder of the church is under low, separately gabled roofs with raised coped verges, also defining the nave and chancel, and the aisles and chapel. The south aisle incorporates a trefoil lancet to the left of the porch, which has a pointed arch with mouldings on capitals. To the right of the porch are two three-light windows with square heads under drips, one of which lights the chapel. The north aisle has a similar window, a blocked door, and one four-centered three-light window. The organ chamber and chapel both have three-light pointed east windows that mirror the larger east window to the chancel.

Internally, there is a three-bay arcade with round piers, a fourth similar bay between the chancel and chapel. The chancel has a wagon roof, and the tower features a fluted vault and a particularly deep wave-moulded arch. Memorial tablets in the tower include a late 18th century marble tablet to Symes. The tower was originally erected by the Merchant Venturers of Bristol and serves as a landmark, visible from many locations in Avon. It includes stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.