St Michael And All Angels

C12, late C15 tower and alterations to aisles, chancel repaired 1853 and restored 1901 for Reverend W. Burland.

Norman style, Perpendicular tower and alterations to aisles, Decorated style C19 alterations.

4-stage tower has 4- centred arched West door in moulded surround with carved spandrels, hood mould and string course above, tall 3-light window above with hood mould, 2nd stage has image niche with pinnacles, diagonal shaft with crockets above, similar diagonal shaft to each side

east side of tower above nave roof has paired string courses with gargoyle to lower string and crocketed diagonal shafts between, 3rd and 4th stages as to west

plinth, strings between stages, diagonal weathered buttresses with shafts on lower set offs, possibly formerly for images, gargoyles at 3rd stage and pinnacled shafts at 4th stage, pinnacles to top, top string course with gargoyles and pierced stone tracery parapet.

Nave has 4 clerestorey windows visible above north aisle, round-headed with torus mouldings, Norman corbel table with zigzag and beading, mask and monster corbels alternating with beaded corbels, to east under corbel table, a wider zigzag and beaded corbel, cross finial to nave.

4 bay south arcade has 3 similar columns to west, 4th column twisted spirally, with flutes flanked by rolls, flanked by beading, arch to east raised in C15 to Perpendicular style with small jamb-shaft to west, hollow-chamfered and wave-moulded, only upper section of clerestorey window above remaining, 3 clerestorey lights to west as on north side but unglazed, because of raised south aisle roof

North aisle has pitched roof of 4 bays, arched-braces, principal and common rafters and one purlin, all moulded with fine carved bosses, arched-braces rising from stone mask corbels: to east, a round-arched recess (possibly former Easter sepulchre) with small square niche to left.

South aisle has roof raised above Norman corbel table, as on north nave exterior, stonework above south arcade of rubble with mortices from former aisle roof, dressed masonry above former roof line, similar mouldings to clerestorey windows

4-bay C19 roof with tie-beams set on wall-posts on corbels, braces with pierced carving between tie and principal rafters, purlin with struts to tie-beam

former upper window to chancel, blocked, and remains of possible carved figure.

ribs have half-roll profile, flanked by hollows, west bay has rib to north west rising from corbel with scallop and chevron capital, 4 animal heads in flat relief carved at meeting of 4 ribs

Fittings: Norman piscina on plain shaft in chancel, found at Priddy

Norman font in nave, circular with chip-carved zigzag frieze

carved wooden Perpendicular style screen to west and north of south chapel

C19 Romanesque stone pulpit in nave

2 brass chandeliers in nave.

In north aisle, a painted, recumbent effigy, c.1290, possibly to Thomas de Morton, flatly carved, set in recess with wide triangular arch with rosettes on hollow moulding

ledger stone beneath organ, to George Roynon, 1637.

East window has stained glass by Murray of London, 1902.