Church Of The Holy Paraclete

The Church of the Holy Paraclete is a parish church built in 1869 by the Rector, Octavius James, on a medieval site. It is constructed from squared rubble with stone dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a simple rectangular plan with a small vestry on the north side, which has a catslide roof. Stepped clasping buttresses at the corners rise to separate pyramidal caps, and the roof is steeply pitched.

On the south wall, there is a 14th-century-style doorway with one lancet to the west and three to the east, all featuring chamfered hoodmoulds. The north side has three similar lancets. The west end includes a re-set 13th-century window with two pointed lights and a pierced quatrefoil above, taken from the east end of the old church, along with a 19th-century quatrefoil window above it. The gable-end belfry is supported by tall corbels and has small pointed openings, topped with a swept octagonal turret featuring gabled faces and a fleche. The east end has three stepped lancets above a moulded string course and a smaller turret with a tall finial cross. The vestry includes small lancets and a pointed chamfered doorway.

Inside, the church has a continuous space that lacks fitted seating, which highlights the building's height. It features a hammerbeam roof and a broad shouldered-arched recess opposite the south door. The eastern lancets have moulded trefoil rear arches, and the triple sedilia is supported by Frosterley marble shafts. A double-chamfered arch on heavy moulded corbels leads to the vestry. The font has an octagonal bowl and base that are medieval, possibly from the 13th century. A marble tablet with an urn on the south wall commemorates William Randal Featherstonehaugh, who died in 1807.

The church is said to have been designed by Rev. James, who also made additions to Clarghyll Hall in Cumbria, after visiting churches in the Black Forest.