Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church built between 1884 and 1893 by architect W.S. Hicks. It features snecked tooled stone with ashlar dressings, except for the porch, which is made of oak on a stone base, and has a Lakeland slate roof. The church has a cruciform plan that includes a western porch leading to a narthex, vestries, a broad unaisled nave, a central tower, and a small sanctuary. The design is in a free 14th-century style.

The porch resembles a lych gate and is constructed in a timber-framed 15th-century style, leading into a flat-roofed narthex with diagonal buttresses and a moulded parapet. The slightly narrower nave has four bays and is flanked by crocketed pinnacles, with a four-light west window above the narthex roof. The side walls are supported by stepped buttresses and feature two- or three-light windows. Each transept has angle buttresses, doors on the west side, and two two-light windows at each end. The tower has large diagonal buttresses at the western angles and an octagonal southeast stair turret, with two-light bell openings and a string course adorned with gargoyles below a stepped embattled parapet. The sanctuary is supported by setback buttresses and has a five-light east window, along with two-light windows on each side wall. The gables are topped with moulded coping and finial crosses on the east and west ends, and the patterned rainwater heads are dated 1884.

Inside, the church is plastered, except for the crossing and sanctuary, which feature alternating dressings of pink and buff stone. The crossing has semi-octagonal piers and capitals that vary in detail, with smaller arches set obliquely between the nave and transepts. The nave boasts a panelled barrel roof on a carved embattled wall-plate with cusped panels and coved eaves, while the wainscoting is also panelled and embattled. The west door and window are set in a tall double-chamfered arch. The tower features a wooden lierne vault with carved bosses. The sanctuary has a panelled barrel roof with bosses and a richly-carved embattled wall-plate, along with a piscina, sedilia, and panelled walls. There is a carved stone font with a conical cover. The nave contains good late 19th-century stained glass, some of which was made by Percy Bacon Bros. of London. The narthex includes an entrance lobby with a coffered ceiling.