St Michael

Nave has C19 windows in C13 style.

single and paired C13 lancets in side walls with hollow-chamfered string linking hoodmoulds.

Low round-headed tower arch with moulded imposts, possibly Roman stones, arch of rough rubble perhaps a post-medieval reconstruction.

C19 pointed double- chamfered transept arches on medieval jambs.

C12 coped and regulated gravestone in chancel against north wall, medieval cross slab in sanctuary floor, various C18/19 floor slabs and wall monuments.

Important collection of carved stones lying loose in porch.

Traditionally Warden Church stands on the site of an oratory used by St. John of Beverley when he was Bishop of Hexham (685-704).

The west tower, despite the C18 reconstruction of its belfry stage, is an important member of the Northumbrian group of Saxon towers.

H.M. & J. Taylor, Anglo Saxon Architecture 632 - 634