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Originally built in 1143 to serve as a chantry chapel for the Tempest family, St Michael's became the parish church in 1153.

The church retains its Jacobean pulpit and font cover and some interesting fragments of mediaeval glass as well as a 'Leper's Peep', norman chancel arch and doorway arch.

Nearby is King Henry's parlour where it is beleived Henry VI sought refuge after his defeat in the Wars of the Roses.