Church Of St Michael

The Church of St. Michael is a Grade II* listed building, dating from the late 12th century, with additions from the 13th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from squared coursed lias and features a lead roof. The church comprises a nave, south aisle, chancel, and west tower. The chancel is plain, with string courses and clasped buttresses at the corners. The east window, which dates from the 19th century, has panel tracery. There is a projection for the organ chamber on the north side, built around 1888, which includes a 13th-century lancet window with a centre transom and a quatrefoil window above, both of which have been reset. The roof is gabled with plain parapets and a finial at the apex, and there are clasped buttresses at the northwest corner.

The nave has a similar design, featuring a 2-light reticulated window on the north side. The north porch, which dates from the late 12th century, has a door opening with single shafts and water leaf capitals, leading to a steeply pointed arch. The porch roof is gabled with an ashlar moulded parapet. The south aisle, added in 1856, has a three-window range of 2-light windows with reticulated tracery and clasped buttresses at the corners. The east window of the aisle is round with trefoiled tracery.

The west tower consists of four unequal stages and has clasped buttresses. Each face of the third stage features a 2-light window with reticulated tracery, and the tower is topped with a plain parapet and short pinnacles.

Inside, the nave features a 3-bay arcade with double chamfered arches and octagonal piers, which date from the 1856 extension. There is a 14th-century triple chamfered tower arch. The 19th-century painted altar includes a triptych reredos flanked by wall paintings of St. Peter and St. Paul. The stained glass includes 19th-century work in the east window and two south aisle windows, along with remnants of early stained glass in the north nave window. The Jacobean pulpit is panelled, and there is a rail with turned balusters leading to the belfry, which likely originated as a communion rail. A 19th-century chancel screen is also present. Monuments within the church include a plain marble tablet from 1849 dedicated to Rev. McCormick and a late 19th-century tablet to the Crow family, both located in the chancel.