Church of St Michael and All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a building of group value, dating from the 12th century with later additions and alterations. It comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, and a longer, lower chancel. The church is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, with a north aisle wall in lias, and has a plain tile roof.

The south porch is gabled with coped verges, a moulded apex finial and kneelers. It contains a pointed, simply chamfered outer doorway and a limewashed interior with stone benches and a flag floor. The interior of the south door has an almost round arch, likely Norman, with a single chamfer. The nave has a raised coped verge with an apex cross, and a visible line indicating a former higher pitched roof on the north face of the tower. A square-headed two-light window from the post-medieval period is set into the south wall, featuring a chamfered mullion and surround with leaded diamond quarries, incorporating one iron-framed casement. The chancel has similar coping to the nave with an apex cross and kneelers; a south window has two trefoil-headed lights, and the east window consists of three similar lights with a relieving arch above. The east wall has a battered plinth. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1904, and its east window likely incorporates two trefoil-headed lights that were reset.

The west tower has an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles, now incomplete, a shallow corbel table, a string course, and diagonal buttresses with offsets. It features double lights with louvres to the ringing chamber, small rectangular lights to the north and south, and a chamfered trefoil-headed lancet window to the west. The moulded west doorway has two orders under deep voussoir stones.

The church was restored, reroofed, and refurnished circa 1894-1904. The 14th-century north arcade consists of a single octagonal pier with moulded capitals, two arches of two heavily chamfered orders, and two attached piers. An east extension may incorporate former stairs to a rood loft, which are now blocked. The pointed chancel arch has no piers but contains defaced figure capitals or corbels springing from the interior chamfer. On either side of the arch are squints, one of which is blocked, with ogee arched mouldings surmounted by leafy crockets. To the north, vestigial stairs lead to what was formerly the rood loft, beneath a square-headed doorway. The north chancel wall is of varying thickness. A simple pointed west tower arch is present, and the west window is deeply splayed. A vestigial niche is located by the pointed arched south door.

Notable furnishings remain, including two important medieval effigies: that of John Martel, in the chancel, depicting him in chain mail with a shield and sword, legs crossed, head on a cushion; and that of Anne Martel (1270), in the north aisle, showing her with hands in prayer and feet resting on a lapdog, accompanied by a Norman French inscription. A tomb chest with moulded shields partially survives. A 12th-century square font tapers to a round base and has no lead. A slab floor incorporates ledgers in the nave and chancel.