St Michael

old flat roof with crossed beams with painted carved boss at central joint, and some old joists

between bays, buttresses carrying detached shafts with gargoyles

crenellated parapets pierced with cusped openings and pinnacles, medieval grave cover propped up against 1st bay

blocked north doorway has Tudor arch, hollow chamfered and with shields in spandrels and hood mould, blocking has strapwork panel with crown above.

nave roof is flat and has 3 spine beams with painted carved bosses at junctions with tie beams

chancel roof of basket-arched beams with carved bosses at ridge junc- tions, and panels divided into 4, with bosses

windows have classical moulding to sills and medieval glass in tracery.

on west wall above gallery, traces of black lettering, and Wombwell hatchments.

Monu- ments: in floor of nave central aisle, black marble slab with brass indents under glass to Sir John Manston d. 1464

on north wall of chancel, large impres- sive monuments to Henry Belasyse d. 1647 and his son Thomas, Earl Fauconberg d. 1700, with white marble life-size figures with putti above bearing an earl's coronet, by John Nost

The effigies are of father and son, Thomas Belasyse, Earl of Fauconberg (†1700) in Roman costume, with the son carrying a coronet.

© Mike Searle

and a tombchest to William Belasyse d. 1603 and his wife Margaret, with recumbent effigies in large classical entablature with painted strapwork, coats of arms and Latin texts, carved by Thomas Browne from Hazlewood stone

on south wall of chancel, monument to Thomas Vicount Fauconberg d. 1632 and his wife Barbara d. 1618, with 2 kneeling figures in large aedicule with Corinthian columns

and an imitation Gothic chantry-style monument to Henry, last Earl Fauconberg d. 1802, and his wife Charlotte d. 1825.

The chancel has an unusual C18 altar rail of turned balusters projecting forward in U-shaped plan between the monuments

In the nave, C18 pulpit with tester and reading desk