Church of St. Aidan

The Church of St. Aidan is a parish church dating to 1885, designed by Oliver and Leeson and built on land given by the Consett Iron Company. A tower was added in 1903, as indicated by a panel within the porch. The church is constructed of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar for the plinth, quoins, and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. It comprises a nave with a south-west tower porch, transepts, and a chancel with a north organ loft and a south vestry. The design is in the Early English style.

The two-stage tower features a boarded double door set within a chamfered two-centred arch with a dripmould. Paired cusped, two-light belfry openings with tracery, also with drip moulds, are set within panels under corbel tables. A broach spire topped with large lucarnes completes the tower. Lancet windows are present, with four stepped in the west front above four small cusped lights. The east window is a plate-tracery three-light window under a vesica. The transepts have paired rectangular lights within paired gables. A north-west door is now blocked. Buttresses are found on the transepts, nave, and west end. The steeply-pitched roof is lower over the chancel and incorporates decorative ridge tiles and stone cross finials. A slender central fleche with a glazed lantern tops the structure.

Inside, the plastered walls feature ashlar dressings. The chancel is panelled and the arch-braced roof is supported by collared laminated trusses on stone corbels. The chancel roof has painted panels displaying Trinity symbols and Gothic decoration. Paired double-chamfered two-centred transept arches are supported by corbels and round columns with nail-head detailing. A similar high chancel arch rests on moulded corbels. The rerearches and organ arch are also chamfered. A continuous sill string, stepped at the east wall of the south transept, continues as a drip over the vestry opening. A shouldered arch provides entry to the vestry from the chancel. The church contains a rood screen, chancel panelling, and a reredos, all dated 1935. A Gothic wood pulpit stands on stone steps and a pedestal, while a square stone font sits on a stone pedestal and is supported by four granite shafts. Early 20th-century stained glass windows commemorate the first vicar and John Seymour Lee. Other windows are likely original clear and tinted glass in simple geometrical leading. A brass plaque within the blocked north-west door commemorates the founding of the parish in 1884 and the laying of the foundation stone in 1885.