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Dalbury consists of two widely scattered hamlets, Dalbury and Dalbury Lees. More than a mile from the Lees is the remote church, with a cluster of dwellings for company and the Radbourne Brook not far away, and with a treasure more than 700 years old. This is a small figure of St Michael, with mitre and bare feet, in 13th century glass, filling a lancet as old as itself in the nave.
Nothing is left of the church which came into the Domesday Book, but of the 13th century there is another lancet in the nave and a little bell-tower with later battlements, resting inside on an enriched arch which makes a fine frame for the west window. Other treasures are a fine oak chair of 1689, a reredos of five ancient wood carvings of two winged angels on each side of a panel of scroll-work, a 19th century alabaster font, and a very rare thing...a beautiful communion chalice of wood.
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