Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church built in 1870 by Messrs. Austin and Johnson of Newcastle, with a south vestry added in 1929. It is constructed of roughly-tooled snecked stone with tooled ashlar dressings and features a roof made of small red clay tiles. The church has a 4-bay aisleless nave and a 2-bay chancel, with vestries located on the north and south sides, designed in a mid-14th century style.

Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, moulded sill strings, and linking hoodmoulds. Stepped buttresses are positioned between the bays, flanking the west end, and serving as angle buttresses at the east end. The south wall of the nave features boarded double doors in the west bay, set within a double-chamfered arch topped with an ogee hood that rises to a finial, flanked by two quatrefoil panels in a broad flat-topped projection. Both sides of the nave have 2-light windows with varying tracery, and there are a pair of taller windows set high in the west end. The east end is marked by a stepped gabled bellcote pierced by two large trefoil-headed arches, with a smaller arch above and between them. The slightly taller chancel has 3- and 2-light south windows, with the 3-light window located above a flat-roofed vestry that features 2- and 3-light mullioned windows, along with a 3-light east window. The north vestry has a pent roof with small lancets. All gables are topped with moulded coping and finial crosses.

Inside, the walls are made of tooled-squared stone. The chancel arch is double-chamfered, with a similar but smaller arch leading to the organ. There is a trefoiled piscina and a segmental-pointed sedile in the chancel, along with Minton tiles in the sanctuary. A carved openwork chancel screen and a moulded font on a quatrefoil shaft are also present. The nave roof features collar-beam trusses with upper king-posts and struts, and long arch braces in alternate trusses resting on moulded stone corbels, with ashlar pieces at the eaves.