Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is a parish church located in Buckland Dinham. It features a nave, chancel, south chapel, and south porch dating from around 1200, a north chapel built in 1325, and a west tower constructed in 1480, with a restoration carried out in the late 19th century. The building is made of rubble with a slate and stone tile roof.

The nave has two early lancet windows, while the rest of the openings were added during the restoration. The south door is designed in a Transitional style with a depressed arch and outer zig-zag decoration on vertical springers with colonettes. The north door is simpler in style. The porch includes a parvise and features a stone fan vault, with a depressed arch outer door opening that has panelled reveals, reworked around 1480.

The south chapel contains single and triple lancets, which are shafted and cusped on the inside, along with carved taper brackets on the north wall. There is a 19th-century three-light cusped window on the east side and a three-light Perpendicular window in the north chancel chapel. The Perpendicular tower has three stages, is diagonally buttressed, and features a single three-light bell chamber opening with stone latticework, along with paired openings below that have blind tracery.

Inside, the church has encaustic tile and flagstone floors, with the oldest feature being a Norman tub font adorned with a frieze. The furnishings include two 17th-century oak chests, a pair of coffin stools, and two chairs—one with a carved solid back and the other with turned legs and a latticework seat and back from the 17th century. There is also a 17th-century altar table and a panelled pulpit, which was likely once a three-decker, along with similar panelling at the rear of the sedilia. A half-broken cusped tomb recess is located on the north side of the nave, and there are demi-figures representing Sir John Dinham and his lady from 1332 set into the floor of the north chapel, along with a late 19th-century commemorative plaque and rails.