St Michaels Church - St Michael’s Church, as we see it today, is a mix of structures from many centuries. St Michael's Church pre-dates the Norman Conquest and is said to have been founded by Ulsinus, Abbot of St Albans Abbey in 948AD.

St Michael’s lies among the foundations of the old basilica Roman Verulamium, where Alban was condemned to die. The first St Michael's Church is likely to have been a simple timber structure, but it was replaced by a more permanent building in flint and brick taken from the ruins of Verulamium.

In late ninteenth century, Lord Grimthorpe, owner of Batchwood Hall, turned his attention to St Michael's. Lord Grimthorpe was a lawyer, parliamentarian, clockmaker and saviour of St Albans Cathedral. At his own expense, he extended the nave westwards and built the tower on the north-west corner of the church. St Michael’s today is very much as he left it.

The most noteworthy parishioner of St Michaels was Sir Francis Bacon, lawyer, statesman, philosopher and pioneer of the empirical method in science.