Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a medieval church that has been heavily restored in the 19th century. The transepts were added in 1837, and the west tower was constructed between 1860 and 1880. The building is made of stone rubble with ashlar dressings, while the chancel is roughcast, and it has slate roofs. The church features a nave with transepts and a west tower, along with a chancel that includes a south organ loft.

The tower is supported by angle buttresses and has string courses. The west entrance features a pointed trefoil head beneath a relieving arch, flanked by two lancets and a clock above. There is a north canted stair turret topped with a hipped roof and a tiny dormer. The tower has two lancet louvred bell openings with blind lancets on either side, a Lombard frieze, a coped parapet with pinnacles, and a pyramidal roof with a cross.

The two-bay nave has lancets with a continuous hoodmould that extends across the transepts, and the north elevation shows traces of an entrance. The transepts have stepped triple lancets with single lancets on the returns, and the southern transept has a lateral stack. The chancel features a three-light round-headed window above a raking base, supported by a massive raking buttress to the south. The coped gable has a cross, while the north elevation includes a two-light window with tracery and an entrance with a shouldered lintel. The south elevation has a lean-to organ loft with quoins and deeply splayed lancets.

Inside, the nave and transepts have collar and tie-beam trusses, which are ceiled above the collars and feature king and queen struts. The transepts have two-bay arcades, and the round chancel arch is double-chamfered, with parts of it being original. An octagonal font on a 19th-century stem has shields on its sides, with initials that may refer to R Brown, the rector around 1535, as well as the Hudleston arms and a black-letter inscription. The font is topped with a 19th-century pinnacled cover. The chancel includes a piscina in a 19th-century surround, a small wall brass dedicated to Sir Hugh Askew, who died in 1562, and 19th-century stalls with traceried panels. The east window was made by Hardman, the north window of the chancel was created by Holiday, who died in 1899, and the transept windows were made by Ward and Hughes.