Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church built in 1857 by William Butterfield, with minor alterations made in the late 19th century and a vestry added in 1901 by C.H. Fowler. The church is constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings and features a plinth on the vestry. It has a Welsh slate roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles. The structure includes a 4-bay nave with a north porch and a 2-bay chancel, which has a north organ chamber and vestry.

There are steps leading up to the boarded north door, which is fitted with leaf-decorated strap hinges and set in a deeply-moulded, 2-centred-arched surround beneath a wood-bracketed cast-slide roof. The windows predominantly feature ovolo-moulded cusped ogee tracery, mostly in 2-light configurations, with alternate-block surrounds and sloping sills. The south-west nave window is more elaborate and includes a dripmould. The east window is decorated with 3 lights and has a beakhead-stopped dripmould, while the west window showcases plate tracery with 3 ogee-headed lights. Short buttresses and a continuous stepped sill string are present on the chancel, vestry, and north nave.

Inside, the church has painted plaster walls with ashlar dressings. The roof is arch-braced, featuring collars and short king-posts, with two tiers of thin wood arches between each collar and the apex, supported by bolted arch braces. Tension rods are stirrup-fastened to the king-posts. A deep dripmould runs over the high chamfered chancel arch, which has an inner ovolo-moulded arch on shafts with fillets. A similar dripmould is found above the vestry door. The window surrounds are ovolo-moulded with double-chamfered sill steps. The reredos, designed by Butterfield, dates to 1892. Early 20th-century pews were made by Thompson of Masham, and the chancel features panelling with a traceried arch over the sedilia. The east window is dated and signed 1923 by W. Glasby of London.