Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church dating back to the early 12th century, with significant extensions from the mid-12th and 13th centuries, alterations in the 15th and 17th centuries, and restorations in 1882 and 1913. The church is constructed of roughly-coursed mixed sandstone on a chamfered plinth, and has a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables. The building comprises a 3-bay nave with aisles, a north transept, an open west bellcote, a south porch, and a lower 3-bay chancel.

A gabled porch was added in 1882, featuring a blocked south door and a present Tudor-style door to the side. A blocked west doorway is visible above which is a 2-light window dating from the 15th century. The south aisle has hollow-chamfered 2-light windows, with the east wall window featuring a round head under a hoodmould. A battlemented parapet tops the aisle. The north aisle has a blocked flat-headed doorway and a late 19th-century 2-light window. A 3-light tracery window is located in the north transept. The chancel has narrow round-headed Norman windows in the north wall, with similar blocked windows in the east and south walls, a replacing lancet in the south wall, and an intersecting-traceried 3-light east window.

Inside the nave, a round-column arcade is visible, featuring round arches with Norman carved responds. The Norman south doorway has a columned surround with carved capitals under a zigzag and rope arch; a sundial dated 1871 is positioned above the doorway. A small medieval graveslab is in the porch, others are used as lintels for the west window and flanking the blocked west door, incorporating a 17th-century inscribed stone reading T.T. A.T. The Norman font has a later stem. A painted panelled-wood ceiling from 1689, given by Thomas Addison, is believed to have originated from a London Livery Company hall. The chancel arch is Norman, consisting of two orders of zigzags on columns with carved capitals. The open timber roof in the north transept is dated 1614 and bears initials. A vestry screen was installed in 1966. A wall plaque commemorates Reverend Thomas Nicholson, a former vicar, dating to 1735. The chancel has a 19th- or 20th-century panelled ceiling. A tomb recess in the south wall likely once contained a medieval effigy, which is now located in the south aisle. An aumbry and piscina with sun motif are also present. Panelled choir stalls were added in 1882; all other furnishings and fittings are 20th-century.