Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert was built in 1875 by Hicks and Charlewood, incorporating reused masonry from a 12th-century church and built upon Anglo-Saxon foundations. A north porch was added in 1887/89 and reconstructed in 1969. A vestry and organ chamber were added in the late 19th century, and a tower in 1907. The church is constructed of dressed sandstone, with medieval grave covers and carved fragments incorporated into the south walls. The nave and vestry have Welsh slate roofs, the organ chamber has Lakeland slate, the chancel has felt, and the spire is covered in oak shingles.

The church is in the Decorated style, featuring plate and reticulated tracery. The three-stage west tower has a moulded plinth, angle buttresses, and string courses. The west window is pointed, and the bell openings have louvres. The tower is topped with an embattled parapet and crocketed angle pinnacles, and an octagonal needle spire with an iron weather vane. The nave and aisle have four bays, and the chancel has two bays, with a continuous chamfered plinth. A projecting porch has boarded double doors in a pointed surround and an embattled parapet with a cross finial. The nave and aisle windows are two-light, set between offset buttresses, and the chancel windows are pointed.

Inside, the four-bay north arcade has round and octagonal columns with continuous hoodmoulds. The pointed tower arch is of three moulded orders, with tapered corbels, and a similar chancel arch is of two orders. A wide, chamfered, pointed vestry opening, springing from floor level, holds a wood screen. Shallow roof trusses support short crown posts, through purlins, ties with curved braces, and wall posts on corbels. The tower ceiling is fan-vaulted with Tudor-rose bosses. The sanctuary has a marble floor, carved wood panelling, and a retable with four figures of saints under enriched pinnacled canopies, dating to 1889. Other features include carved choir benches from the early 20th century, an oak rood screen constructed c.1914 with slender columns, drop tracery, and a cross finial, a richly carved, octagonal stone pulpit from 1897, and a carved octagonal stone font on a short column and two steps. A two-tier lantern cover with a crocketed spire, by H.L. Hicks, is also present. Stained glass includes an east window likely by Wailes c.1871, a west window from 1875, north aisle windows c.1900 by H.A. Hymers (Chelsea), and a south-east window in the nave from 1875. A sculpted late 14th-century grave cover depicting a recumbent female figure sits on a late 19th-century base. The vestry contains two painted bequest boards.