The Church Of St Bertoline

The Church of St Bertoline is a parish church largely dating to the late 15th century, with a chancel rebuilt between 1925 and 1926 by Austin and Paley, incorporating a 12th-century Norman doorway in the north wall. It is constructed of red sandstone with a lead roof.

The church consists of a four-bay nave, side aisles, and a narrower, less lofty chancel, all in the Perpendicular style. A square west tower has clasping buttresses and a gothic entrance with a hood mould and a pair of three-panelled doors. Above the door is a large four-light stained glass window of Perpendicular design. The tower has a clock face on the north side and two-light "Y" tracery windows on all faces at the bell stage. The tower's parapet is crenellated with angle gargoyles and crocketted pinnacles. A north-side nave entrance porch retains its original stone holy water font. North aisle windows are four-light, leaded with ogee tracery, while the south aisle windows are three-light with stained glass. Interwindow buttresses are present. The clerestory features eight matching two-light windows with cusped heads on both sides. A large five-light chancel east window is also present. The nave and aisle parapets are crenellated.

Inside, the aisle arcade piers are chamfered squares with attached angle shafts and simply moulded caps. The chancel arch is elaborately moulded, supported by three shafts with rings. The chancel is flanked north by a vestry and south by the Crewe Memorial Chapel, which contains a 14th-century and 16th-century alabaster recumbent effigies of a knight and a former rector, a marble figure of Lady Houghton by J E Boehm, a Victorian Gothic monument to the first Lord Crewe (said to be by Nesfield), and two large wall monuments to other members of the Crewe family. The chancel-chapel wall has two arched openings fitted with metal grilles. The south wall of the chancel has twin arched sedilia with marble shafts and level seats. A 17th-century oak reredos is now against the south internal wall of the tower. A carved oak parclose screen encloses the organ at the west and south ends of the north aisle. Elaborately carved, panelled, slightly cambered, oak ceilings cover the nave and aisles, supported by consoles. The 19th-century chancel ceiling is in a similar style, but has level tie beams and short posts supporting the rafters.