Church Of St Edmund

The Church of St Edmund is a parish church built between 1877 and 1879 by C. Hodgson Fowler. It is constructed of hard brick with a plinth and sandstone ashlar dressings, some of which are red. The church features a thin perforated-tile damp-course and a Welsh slate roof adorned with roll-moulded ridge tiles.

The building is designed in the Early English style and consists of a nave with a south porch, an integral west vestry, and a tower, along with a chancel that includes a north vestry. The nave has seven bays and a gabled porch located in the second bay, which includes double doors beneath three stepped lancet windows. A sill-string runs beneath the widely spaced lancets. The chancel is set back and has a double plinth, featuring six closely grouped lancets on a sill string that steps up at the east to the sill of three stepped east lancets.

On the west elevation, there is a slightly projecting center designed to resemble a three-stage tower, which includes lancets in the first two stages and two-light louvred belfry openings with flat wood mullions. The tower is topped with a high pyramid roof that has swept eaves and a weather-cock finial. Additionally, there are iron and stone cross finials on the gables of both the nave and chancel.

Inside, the church features painted brick walls and a bracketed king-post roof with arch-braced collars, along with pierced braces in the chancel roof. A dentilled brick cornice is present, and the roll-moulded sill string continues as a drip mould over the doors. The west end bay has three high arches in the cross wall, with two transverse arches creating three high square spaces, the central one containing a bell-rope.