Church Of St Matthew

The Church of St Matthew is a parish church built between 1885 and 1886 by the architects Oliver and Leeson from Newcastle, with a porch added in 1888. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and features a Welsh slate roof. The church is designed in the Early English style and consists of a nave with a south porch, north and south double transepts, and an apsed chancel. The four-bay nave includes groups of three lancet windows, while the transept gables and the three-bay chancel also feature paired lancets. The south porch has a cusped arch with a niche above it. The roofs are high-pitched, with flat stone coping at the east end of the nave. A small slate-covered fleche sits over the crossing, adorned with gablets over alternate louvres in the octagonal belfry, and there are stone cross-finials at the west end, an iron one at the east, and on the fleche.

Inside, the church is mostly plain, except for the west window, which serves as a First World War memorial. This window consists of three paired lancets depicting the Call of Matthew, the Transfiguration, and the Raising of the Widow's Son. Additionally, there are two stained glass windows in the north transept that were salvaged from the previous church on the site, which was built in 1850 and demolished to allow for the current structure.