Church of St Michael and All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a parish church, likely dating to the 12th century, with significant alterations and additions spanning subsequent centuries. The church is rendered and limewashed over a local rubblestone core, with squared white limestone visible within the tower. The roof is covered in sandstone slate. The building consists of a nave, a south porch, a north vestry, a chancel, and a west tower.

The south elevation of the nave features a central gabled porch with a molded Tudor arch doorway, a dripmould, and a gable cross. The porch is blind. To the left of the porch is a three-light square-headed window with a dripmould, and a taller window to the right, both with four-centred heads to the lights. The north wall of the nave has a similar two-light window to the left, but is largely obscured by the Millennium vestry, which has three small windows and a catslide roof. A gable cross sits atop the nave roof.

The chancel’s south wall contains a pointed arch priest's door, flanked by two lancet windows on either side, the right window being slightly higher. The east gable has a two-light window with trefoil-headed lights and a dripmould, topped with a modern replacement gable cross. The north wall of the chancel is blank except for a lean-to shed.

The three-stage west tower has a battered square base and an embattled top. The ground stage has a plain chamfered frame doorway on the west side, and an apparently 17th-century three-light window above it. A projecting stair turret, present only on the south wall, extends to the second stage of the tower. The second stage is largely featureless. The bell stage has a two-light louvred opening with a dripmould on each face. The tower is topped by a machicolated and embattled parapet.

The church’s interior is plastered and painted, featuring a Victorian open timber roof with double scissor braces. Original features include a 12th-century Norman font and a 13th-century Decorated chancel arch, flanked by trefoil-headed niches with remnants of painted decoration on the walls, with a third niche located above. Two doorways with chamfered frames provide access to the rood stair, uniquely situated within the thickness of the north wall. Corbel brackets for the rood-loft remain on the east wall and medieval wall paintings depicting the Life of St. Nicholas are present. The church furnishings are largely Victorian, including benches, tiled floors, a pulpit, and a lectern, all crafted by H.J. Williams of Bristol. The church holds a good selection of 18th and 19th-century wall memorials and an excellent, likely 15th-century, knight displayed within an earlier niche in the chancel north wall. The stonework in the upper part of the tower is unpainted and reveals that it has been heightened using squared white limestone, probably to accommodate the single large bronze bell, which is believed to be pre-Reformation. The doorway to the new vestry is a modern addition.