Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building, mostly constructed in 1827 by George Edgecumbe, with a chancel in the Perpendicular style. It stands on the site of a Saxon chapel and is built from red sandstone with slate roofs. The church has a cruciform plan, featuring a west tower, nave, north and south transepts, and a chancel. The tower, designed in a 15th-century style, is embattled and buttressed. The west end includes an arched door with a rectangular hood, a deeply recessed 2-light hooded window, a clock in a lozenge tablet, and a 2-light bell opening with a rectangular hood. The nave has four rectangular hooded windows set in deep recesses, alternating between two 2-light and two 1-light windows, positioned between stepped buttresses. The south transept features a 3-light window in the Perpendicular style. The chancel has an east window of three lights with panel tracery, and side windows with two cusped lights. There are memorial tablets on the east wall, including one to Thomas Hill of Stanney from 1809, with an inscription on an urn in shallow relief on a triangular ground. A square apron supported by stone brackets bears an inscription to Ann Hill, his wife, from 1829. The north wall of the chancel has an inscription for the church wardens from 1698.

Inside, the church has a hammer beam roof with 3½ bays in the nave and 1½ bays in the transepts. The altar, dating from 1686/7, features twisted legs and a plain bottom rail, while the altar rail, likely of similar age, has twisted balusters and a moulded rail. An octagonal panelled pulpit from the late 17th or early 18th century stands on a later base. Benches around the font have twisted and turned legs, probably from the early 18th century. Fragments of an early 16th-century rood screen with openwork cusped arches are incorporated into the 1827 gallery. The church contains 11 memorial tablets, painted on wood and likely created by Randle Holmes, dating from 1627 to 1702, primarily commemorating the Bunbury family. Additional memorials include a painted wood tablet from 1685, a wall tablet from 1668 to Henry Bunbury and family, a marble oval tablet, a marble square tablet from 1682 to Thomas Bunbury, and a large, elaborate marble wall monument to Henry Bunbury, dated 1732, erected by his family.