Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is an Anglican parish church. The core of the church dates to the 15th century, but it was substantially rebuilt in 1852 by T.H. Wyatt in a 14th-century style. The church is constructed of rubble stone with a Welsh slate roof and coped verges.

The building comprises a west tower, a nave with a south porch, a chancel, a north vestry, and an organ chamber. The gabled porch has a segmental pointed doorway with a hoodmould, a coped verge, and a cross finial. The nave has a variety of pointed windows; one two-light window to the left, a gabled dormer with a two-light pointed window above, and three two-light windows to the right of the porch. Corbelled eaves run along the nave. The chancel has two two-light pointed windows with hoodmoulds on the south side, a three-light window with reticulated tracery to the east, and angle buttresses. The vestry has a two-light pointed east window, a 1892 consecration cross, a Tudor-arched doorway, and a two-light window on its north side. A lean-to addition to the east has a five-light ovolo-mullioned casement window with a cusped lancet above, a stack with panelled sides, and a north side with three two-light pointed windows and a single two-light segmental-headed window. Three reset memorial tablets, originally likely from chest tombs, are also present on the north side, one incorporating a bronze panel commemorating Betty Daniel, who died in 1770.

The three-stage tower features diagonal buttresses and a west doorway with rounded corners and cusp, which has a planked door with strap hinges. A three-light restored pointed Perpendicular window sits above a string course, with a lancet on the south side. There is a circular clock face on the north side of the second stage and a circular clock face on the west side of the bell stage. The upper portion of the bell stage has ogee-headed, deeply chamfered lancets, and an octagonal broach spire rises above. A polygonal 19th-century stair turret features chamfered arrowloops on the north side.

Inside, the porch has a scissor-rafter roof and a moulded pointed doorway. The nave has a five-bay roof with arch-braced collar trusses resting on foliated corbels. A double-chamfered segmental-pointed tower arch is screened by an 1890s wooden screen. A double-chamfered chancel arch is similarly screened. The chancel has a panelled roof with painted ribs and panels, and moulded pointed arches leading to the vestry and organ chamber, both screened. A 19th-century wooden reredos is present, along with a piscina on the south-east windowsill. A polygonal wooden pulpit with an octagonal tester, given by John Kemp in 1894 adds to the interior. There is also 19th-century seating and the Royal Arms of George III from 1771 above the south doorway. A 12th-century cylindrical stone font, reset on a 19th-century base, is notable, as is a medieval church door located against the west end of the nave, a fine example with cross braces. Stained glass from the 1890s, including windows to the Rush family by Ward and Hughes and a window to John Kemp from the 1920s, are also present along with glass to the Gouldsmith family. Monuments include a brass on a nave bench end to John Fido, the rector who died in 1723, and a black and white marble tablet to Elizabeth Chapman, who died in 1780.