Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a Grade II listed building located in North Otterington, North Yorkshire. It dates from the 12th century, with restorations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The church is constructed of coursed, squared stone and ashlar, topped with graduated stone slate roofs.

The nave features a bell turret, a south aisle, and a south porch, along with a chancel. The nave is divided into three bays by offset buttresses, with two buttresses between the bays and three clasping the west end. A central gabled porch has a chamfered elliptical archway and an inner board door set in a round-arched surround. The porch is adorned with stone coping and a gable cross. To the left of the porch is a 19th-century two-light cusped pointed-arched window with a hood-mould, while to the right is a three-light cusped segmental arched window, with a similar window located at the east end of the south aisle. The coping of the nave also features a gable cross.

The square 19th-century west bell turret has a single-light louvred pointed-arch belfry opening on each side, a continuous hood-mould, a moulded eaves band, and a short pyramidal spire topped with a cross. The north side of the church has two 19th-century two-light cusped pointed-arched windows, each with hood-moulds.

The chancel has an offset buttress on the east side and features a board door in a 12th-century round-arched chamfered doorway, with a small single-light cusped arched window to its left. To the right is a three-light window with ogee arches, and the east end has a 19th-century three-light cusped pointed-arched window with a hood-mould. The chancel also has stone coping with a gable cross.

Inside, there are fragments from the 10th century, including a wheelhead cross with the Crucifix and part of a shaft with two coarse figures, as well as a partly reconstructed 15th-century screen.