Church Of St Michael And All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is an Anglican parish church with an Early 13th-century tower, the remainder of the building dating to the 14th and 15th centuries. A rainwater head dated 1877 marks a restoration. The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone with freestone dressings, slate and lead roofs, except for the tower which has a pyramidal fishscale tile roof topped with a weathervane. It comprises a nave, chancel, south porch, north aisle, north vestry, and a west tower. The architectural style is Early English and Perpendicular.

The squat, unbuttressed tower has four receding stages, an embattled parapet on corbels, and a low rectangular stair-turret to the south with a single-pitch roof covered in stone slates. A lancet window is set into the lowest stage of the tower, with further lancets to the north, south, and west sides of the upper stages. The top stage features two-light Perpendicular bell-chamber windows. A 19th-century west doorway has a studded door with iron strap hinges. A clock is located on the south side. The nave has four bays, each with simple two-light pointed-head windows.

The south porch is high, with a shallow front-facing gable and gargoyles in the form of angels on either side. The outer door opening has a moulded head on dressed lias jambs. Inside, the church has a tile floor, a 14th/15th-century roof with an ornamental wall plate, and a ribbed and studded inner doorway with iron strap hinges. A parvis (a small upper room above the porch) has upper and lower entrances, although the floor to the upper room has been removed. The four-bay north aisle incorporates a lean-to roof, two-stage buttresses with offsets, and simple two-light pointed head windows.

The two-bay chancel was extensively restored and features diagonal two-stage east buttresses and two-light square head windows. The east end has three mid-19th-century neo-Early English windows, and a priest's door to the south has a scratch dial on a jamb. The single-bay vestry has a two-light Gothick casement with Y-tracery. The interior floor is scraped on 19th-century tiles supplied by Maw and Co of Broseley, Shropshire. The nave has a plastered wagon roof, the chancel a 19th-century wagon roof, and the north aisle a 14th/15th-century lean-to roof.

The tower arch is low and double-chamfered, resting on moulded brackets characteristic of its date. The chancel arch is plain. The four-bay arcade to the north aisle has piers with a four-hollows section. A Perpendicular rood screen features three-light sections with some panel tracery and an embattled top. Other features include a 15th-century font, a Perpendicular piscina in the aisle, a three-light pointed head window between the aisle and vestry with tracery, and a two-light square head window between the chancel and vestry, both of which are partially obscured by the vestry’s addition. A chest dated 1629, along with a further 17th-century chest and chair, are also present. A leaden reredos incorporating Jacobean and medieval elements was made up from old pews and bench ends removed during a 1859 reseating. 19th-century choir stalls, altar rails, an organ, a lectern, and a pulpit are also features. The chancel includes restored 19th-century sedilia. A memorial slab from the 18th century and an early 19th-century wall monument featuring a grieving muse are present, along with a mid-19th-century Gothic wall monument. Late 19th-century stained glass is found in the west window, depicting figures.