Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a church constructed around 1800, built upon the foundations of a 12th and 13th century church. It incorporates significant original masonry, including the south doorway and some windows. The church was altered around 1850, and restored, re-roofed, and had a vestry and boilerhouse added in 1907/08.

The exterior is built of dressed sandstone, with a brick bell turret except for the west face. The roofs are of plain clay tile, with Lakeland slate on the porch and boilerhouse. Stone ridge and gable copings are topped with cross finials. The spire has renewed zinc cladding, while the vestry roof is lead. The church comprises a nave with a west bell turret, a south porch, a lower chancel, and a north vestry and boilerhouse. The architectural styles are Romanesque and Gothic. The west end of the nave features angle buttresses with spirelets rising from plain corniced pedestals. The six-bay south wall has a gabled projecting porch in the third bay, featuring boarded double doors in a Tudor-arched surround with a hoodmould and worn mask stops, and a cross finial. Narrow round-headed windows are located in the first and fourth bays, the former dating back to the 13th century. Other bays contain windows from around 1900 with Geometric tracery. A 12th century round-headed doorway sits within the porch, displaying two orders of zig-zag moulding, with nook shafts topped by spiral volutes, star and dogtooth mouldings. The north wall has boarded double doors in a round-arched opening, alongside two lancets and a 13th century narrow round-headed window. A mid-19th century square-headed window with reticulated tracery and a hoodmould is located on the west side. The bell turret features quoins, rectangular bell openings with louvres, hoodmoulding to the west, a cornice, and a recessed octagonal spire. The chancel has diagonal buttresses and a short, battered buttress against the east wall. The south wall includes paired and single pointed windows flanking a blocked segmental-pointed doorway. A similar window is found on the north wall. Eaves corbel tables incorporate six worn 13th century grotesques on the south side. The east window showcases curvilinear tracery dating from around 1900. A lean-to vestry and boilerhouse, with a stack at the northeast corner, complete the exterior.

Inside, an early 20th century tripartite pointed arcade, with hollow-chamfered piers and two moulded orders, defines the baptistry at the west end. A similar chancel arch is present without responds. A wide segmental-arched opening connects the chancel and vestry. The interior features a moulded and crenellated wall plate, barrel roofs above moulded and carved tie beams in the nave, early 19th century wood communion rails with turned balusters and ball finials, and a mid/late 19th century carved stone font. Two 14th century grave covers are in the porch, depicting a female and a knight. Carved architectural fragments are built into the south wall of the chancel.