Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is an Anglican parish church with elements dating from the 14th, 15th, and 17th centuries. It is constructed of rendered flint with stone dressings, and has a brick porch and tile and lead roofs. The church comprises a nave, aisles, a north porch, a chancel, and a west tower. Windows generally have one, two, or three lights with trefoiled ogee heads, lacking hoods. A three-light east window is also present. The low, two-stage tower of the 17th century features single light square bell openings and short corner obelisks to the parapet. Brick buttresses are visible on the west face, incorporating a datestone reading EHWL 1707. The gabled brick north porch has a rubbed arch and a datestone, EHWT 1675.

The interior of the nave is of two bays, having been shortened from three bays during the tower's rebuilding. The north arcade is of double chamfered orders on an octagonal column with a leaf-carved capital, dating to the early 14th century. The south arcade is similar, though the aisle is narrower. Clerestory windows are also present. A two-chamfered order chancel arch is flanked by brackets for a former rood screen. The roof is low-pitched, dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. The north aisle contains a low wall tomb and a recess under the east window displaying 15th-century encaustic tiles. A trefoiled piscina with a credence shelf can be seen here. The roof is of a similar date to the nave. A south door is set high within the structure. The chancel has two bays but was probably originally longer. There are north and south doors, and a blocked arch on the north side, possibly leading to a former chapel. A wall recess is present on the south side, along with a trefoiled piscina and a credence shelf. The chancel roof is of 15th-century uniform scantling collar truss construction with brattished wall plates. The chancel was restored and paved in the 19th century.

Notable fittings include a simple conical limestone font, the date of which is undetermined, and a 19th-century communion rail. The nave contains two wall tablets, including one for JOHN STRATTON (1916) by J. Lloyd of Bedwyn, and a Great War roll. The chancel north side has a wall tablet, by Osmund of Sarum, displaying a central relief urn surrounded by family shields, commemorating THOMAS RENDALL of Milston (died 1831) and his family. Two further wall tablets are present, dated 1826 by W. Gibbs (to SARAH RENDALL) and 1897 by H. Page of Andover (to HENRY RENDALL and family). In the south aisle is a wall tablet commemorating EDWARD TANNER (1845), featuring a marble sarcophagus with a draped urn.