The Parish Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll had its origins in the eleventh century, with further construction work taking place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a restoration in the nineteenth century. It is built of coursed and squared rubble stone, with lead sheeting on the roofs apart from the
chancel roof, which is slated. There are cruciform
finials on the gable ends. The church is built mostly in the
Perpendicular style, the plan being the
nave, the chancel, the north aisle, the fourteenth-century south porch and the south transept, now used as a vestry. The fourteenth-century tower is at the west end and has three stages with set-back buttresses. It is topped by a parapet with pinnacles, and
gargoyles to shed the water. The Norman doorway in the south porch has chevron decorations. The fifteenth-century nave has a wagon roof, and fittings inside the church include an eleventh-century
font, a
pulpit dated 1637, a Jacobean coffin-stool and chair, and a medieval parish chest. The interior of the church is particularly noted for the bench ends of the pews which are elaborately carved and date to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. ==See also==