Church Of St Michael

The Church of St Michael is an Anglican parish church, largely dating to the 15th century, with significant restoration work undertaken in 1873 by B. Ferrey. Earlier elements include a 13th-century Early English chancel and a Norman south doorway from around 1185. The church is constructed of random rubble with freestone dressings, slate roofs with crested ridges, coped verges, and cruciform finials.

The church comprises a nave, south porch, chancel, north aisle, and a west tower. The tower is embattled across three stages, featuring diagonal buttresses terminating in detached pinnacles, corner shafts topped with pinnacles, a polygonal stair turret, prominent gargoyles, and two-light bell-chamber windows with Somerset tracery and quatrefoil grilles. A clock is set into the south face, below a shafted niche containing a leering figure. The west door is flanked by a four-light window. The nave has two bays with three-light pointed-headed windows. The south doorway has a semi-circular head with incised zig-zag decoration, colonettes with trumpet capitals, one adorned with small stiff-leaf carvings. A 19th-century porch provides access. The three-bay north aisle features cusped lancet windows and two-light windows with bar tracery, set against prominent buttresses. The two-bay, buttressed chancel has lancet windows and an east window composed of three stepped, cusped lights with foils above, dating to the 19th century and designed to replicate the original.

Inside, the walls have been plastered and scraped, and the floors are flagstone. The church is now covered by 19th-century wagon roofs. A star vault sits beneath the tower. Perpendicular style tower and chancel arches include a panelled arch with elaborate moulding, and narrow "squints" with cusped heads on either side. A three-bay arcade to the north aisle is of middle pointed style, with hexagonal piers. A plain octagonal font dates back to the 13th century. Other historic furnishings include a medieval iron-banded chest, a Jacobean chest and pulpit (the latter featuring grotesque masks), some plain 16th and 17th century pews (mostly renewed in the 19th century with family pews at the west end), a Jacobean coffin stool, an 18th-century cope chest, early 19th-century coffin stools and tables, 19th-century brass and wrought-iron candelabra, a 19th-century organ, a late 19th-century choir stalls and reredos, a brass lectern dated 1907, two early 20th-century wooden screens, and a painted chair. Two 18th-century wall monuments are present, one by Wood of Bristol, alongside three principal 19th-century monuments and several brass plaques. Two helms of the Malet family, dating from around 1620, are also displayed. Late 19th-century stained glass is found in the chancel; the remaining windows retain leaded, plain glass.