[2] The church exterior, in plain red stock brick with Monks Park stone dressings for the doors and windows, slated roof and small bell-turret on its western gable, is not particularly impressive; but with its concrete vaulted roof supported on stone ribs, Pevsner and Lloyd, in their Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, considered that it has "an intriguing and distinguished design internally".

[1] The church has a nave with four broad rib-vaulted bays separated from the chancel by a rood-screen surmounted by a carving depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus.

[5] The west window[6] was given in 1962, by Hector Young an ex-mayor of Southampton, in memory of his wife Ethel who was killed in the Blitz in September 1940.

In 1599, the Wriothesley family sold the estate to Sir Thomas Fleming, whose descendants held the advowson until 1997.

Elliott Kenworthy-Browne, the rector of North Stoneham from 1886 to 1912, would often walk over 10 miles a day to meet the needs of his parishioners.

[5] By the mid-1880s, Bassett had grown with many substantial villas occupied by the middle classes; despite having the appearance of a well-to-do suburb of Southampton, Revd.

[8] When Mr. Kenworthy-Browne came to North Stoneham in 1886, mission services were held in a small coach-house close to the Redhill brickyards.

[5] A legacy in the will of John Brown Willis Fleming of Stoneham Park, left the plot of land on Bassett Avenue on which the new church was to be built.

[5] The new church was designed by Edward Prioleau Warren, with the foundation stone being laid by Violet Fleming on 29 September 1897.

[2] St. Michael's has long enjoyed a strong choral tradition, which continues to the present day.

[12] The organ's four ranks consist of an open diapason (A), lieblich gedackt (B), salicional (C) and trumpet (D), which are used to create 25 speaking stops over two manuals and pedals.