Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church, originally dating to the 14th century, but largely rebuilt in 1875 by Sir A.W. Blomfield. It is constructed of knapped flint with stone dressings and has tiled roofs. The church comprises a north-west tower, a nave, a south porch, a north aisle, a north chapel now used as a vestry, and a chancel. It is built in the Decorated style, characterized by arched, traceried windows.

The tower has three stages with set-back buttresses, a battlemented parapet, and a pyramidal roof. Each side of the tower features a pair of large two-light openings to the bell-chamber; the west side has a moulded doorway and lancet windows. The nave has a four-light window to the west, one three-light and two two-light windows to the south, and a moulded south door within a steeply gabled porch. A 20th-century extension adjoins the north aisle, featuring a row of leaded lights. The north chapel has a two-light window facing north and a three-light east window with old tracery. The chancel features two two-light windows on the south side and a three-light window to the east.

Inside the church, a 19th-century north arcade consists of three bays with octagonal piers. A similar chancel arch is also present. There are two-light windows revealing the original outer wall of the north aisle. Two 15th-century moulded arches connect the chancel and the north chapel; the central octagonal pier has painted shields on its capital. Other interior features include a 14th-century ogee piscina, 19th-century roofs, and painted decoration in the chancel.

The church contains a 13th-century cylindrical font with a trefoil arcade and foliage frieze, a 17th-century altar table in the north aisle, and a richly carved marble pulpit from 1891, adorned with figures of archangels in ogee niches. 19th-century glass includes a Disraeli memorial in the east window and a north-west window commemorating Queen Victoria's escape from assassination in 1882.

Monumental sculpture within the church includes a monument to Benjamin Disraeli from 1882, featuring a profile portrait carved by R.C. Belt on the north wall of the chancel. A monument to Thomas Lane (1621) is on the south wall of the chancel and features a small carved figure kneeling at a reading desk. A medieval "cadavre" (stone coffin effigy) portraying a figure in an open shroud stands within a four-centred arch in the north chapel. Two medieval effigies of knights are also in the north chapel - one on the east window sill, the other cross-legged and embellished in the 16th century. Three early 16th-century slabs feature low relief figures of what are purported to be knights from the Montfort and Wellesbourne families, presented within a four-centred arched recess.