The Church Of St Michael And All Angels, With Its Boundary Wall And Gate Piers

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, built in 1897 and designed by J. Nicholson Johnson of Yeovil, is constructed of ham stone with ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with red ornamental clay tile ridges. The church is in a careful Early 15th-century architectural style, incorporating touches of Art Nouveau.

The church includes a short chancel, a five-bay nave and north aisle, a three-bay Lady Chapel on the south side, a short south aisle, and a tower at the west end of the south aisle. A vestry projects from the end of the north aisle, and the main entrance is through a doorway in the south tower. The four-stage tower has its two lowest stages visible from the south and west. The west face of the tower is plain at its first stage. A pointed arched doorway with moulded chamfers is located on the south face, featuring a floriated design in the spandrels and a rectangular carved panel above with vine ornamentation, flanked by angled shafts culminating in turretted pinnacles. The second stage has two small cusped arched windows set high; the west face features a large three-light window in a 15th-century pattern. The third stage has glazed tracery windows to all faces, and the fourth stage has similar windows with pierced stone panels. The tower has offset corner buttresses, a double plinth and string courses, and crenellation to the top. A stair turret on the southwest corner has slit windows and arched arcaded blind panels to the parapet, topped with a flagmost.

The north elevation is divided into bays of the north aisle by offset buttresses, between which are pointed arched mullioned windows with 15th-century tracery. The elevation has a double plinth, string course, and crenellation. There is no clerestory to the nave, and the roof is continuous over nave and aisle. The chancel window is of matching design. The vestry projects two bays. The west elevation is simple, with a pointed arch doorway flanked by shafts with pinnacles to the north aisle, and a West window similar in character to all other windows. Above the window is a panel of seven blind lancets at the crown of the gable, surmounted by a pierced stone cross. The south elevation follows the general character, with the Lady Chapel projecting slightly and being taller than the south aisle. The chancel is not crenellated, and at the east end is a plain gable coping with block and cross finial.

The interior was locked at the time of inspection in January 1983.

The boundary walls are constructed of local stone rubble with random coursing and a rough crenellated top, averaging 1 to 1.5 metres high. Two pairs of gate piers have occasional dressed stones and molded facetted caps.