Parish Church of St Michael

The parish church of St Michael is a building of Geometric Gothic style, largely dating to the 19th century, although incorporating earlier fabric. Constructed of rubble stone with areas of medieval masonry, the church features Bathstone dressings to doorways and window tracery. It comprises a nave with a north aisle incorporating an organ chamber, a chancel with a north vestry, and a south porch surmounted by a bellcote. The steeply-pitched slate roofs have overhanging eaves, with gables finished with cemented coping and carved crucifix finials to the nave and chancel. Low, two-step angle buttresses are present, along with single buttresses between the nave and aisle, the aisle and vestry, and the chancel south windows.

The south side features a porch to the left, topped by the gabled bellcote with a bell dated 1748. A pointed, moulded doorway is flanked by two-light cusped windows with segmental heads. Three pointed two-light cusped nave windows are set above large cinquefoiled circles. The chancel has three trefoiled lancets, and the east window consists of three cusped lights, a major sexfoil, and minor trefoils, all set beneath a hood with carved head-stops and a trefoiled gable roundel. A lancet to the north of the chancel matches that on the south side. The gabled east end of the vestry is set back and has a window mirroring the south side nave window. A pointed north door has a boarded door with iron strap-hinges. The north aisle has four pairs of trefoiled lancets, with a west window matching the south nave window. The west window of the nave has four trefoiled lights, sexfoils, and an apex cinquefoil, all beneath a hood with carved stops.

The interior reveals exposed stone walls and painted Bathstone details. A four-bay arcade features double-chamfered arches on round piers with simple caps. A tall, moulded chancel arch rests upon triple shafts with carved floral capitals and a hood incorporating King and Queen head-stops. The chancel roof is ribbed and boarded, with a moulded wallplate, while the nave has an arch-braced roof with alternate principals on moulded stone corbels and angled struts above the collars. The aisle has a scissor-truss roof. A good 12th-century font has a square bowl with a scalloped underside, a circular pedestal, and a square base, covered by a 19th-century wooden lid with iron and brass strapwork. A triple-gabled, carved stone reredos of the late 19th century is composed of cusped arches on coloured marble colonettes, with simple inlaid and painted work to the panels. Pews, stalls, and a timber pulpit, all date to 1878. Encaustic chancel tiles are present, along with a good stained glass window of 1877 depicting the Sermon on the Mount, an east window depicting the Resurrection (c.1880), and a 1915 nave centre window depicting the Nativity. Monuments include a stone tablet in the chancel to Dorothy, Viscountess Lisburne (d. 1791), and a mid-19th-century tablet to John Vaughan (d. 1855), bearing a sarcophagus and military emblems, signed by S. Manning of London. 20th-century tablets and memorials are also present. A large detached stoup-bowl is located within the porch, likely from the medieval church.