Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a church, likely dating to the 12th century. A south aisle was added around 1200, the chancel extended in the 13th century, a Beetham Chapel in the 14th century, a north aisle added and the south aisle widened in the 15th century, and the top stage of the tower added in the 16th century. It was restored and a south porch added in 1873-74. The church is constructed of rubble walls, primarily limestone with sandstone dressings, and has lead roofs.

The building features a 2-stage battlemented west tower with crocketed corner pinnacles. The west wall contains a 14th-century doorway with a 2-centred arch and a window above with two trefoiled ogee lights in a 2-centred head with a moulded label. The tower also has loop lights and, in the bell chamber, three 16th-century windows with elliptical-headed lights under moulded labels. The east wall contains a late 19th-century 5-light central window. The north aisle has a 15th-century three-light window with cinquefoiled lights in a 4-centred head with a moulded label, and similar windows are found elsewhere. A corresponding three-light 15th-century window with cinque-foiled lights and vertical tracery in a 4-centred head with a moulded label is in the south aisle, along with a smaller 14th-century window and others from around 1400. The south porch is stone-built with a pointed-arched doorway and a memorial to Richard Hadwin, who died in 1779. A 3-light 15th-century window and a 2-light window from around 1400 flank this doorway on the left, while an additional 14th-century window and two from around 1400 are located to the right. Further windows are set into the north side.

The interior includes a 9-bay roof dating to the early 16th century, with cambered and chamfered tie beams, partly restored in the chancel and nave. In the Beetham Chapel, remnants of late medieval heraldic glass remain. Other glass is mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, including an east window by Clayton Bell commemorating William Hutton who died in 1881, a martyrs' window in the north aisle depicting Charles I flanked by St Oswald and St Alban, and a window by Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster and London, which features a black stone memorial urn dated 1811.