Church Of St Chad

The Church of St Chad is a church built between 1860 and 1863 by Robert Jennings of Atherstone, with a west tower added in 1897 by Hodgson Fowler. It is constructed of red sandstone and features grey slate roofs. The church has a cruciform shape, consisting of a three-stage tower, an aisleless three-bay nave with a south porch, one-bay transepts, a two-bay chancel, and a sacristy located in the corner of the chancel and north transept.

The crenelated tower, made of coursed tooled masonry, is designed in the Perpendicular style and includes an octagonal north-west turret. The west window has panel tracery with three lights, while the bell openings contain two lights each. A niche on the south side of the lower stage features a statue of St Chad, and there are one-light trefoil-headed windows on the north and south sides for the bellringers' chamber. The body of the church, built of random rubble in the Early English style, has lancet windows with hoodmoulds supported by stiff-leaf corbels, square buttresses, and coped gables with kneelers and finials.

Inside, the church is plastered with stone dressings. The chancel arch has half-octagon responds, while the transept arches feature half-round responds. The floor is made of encaustic tiles. The nave roof is arch-braced, and the chancel roof has braced collar trusses. There are memorials and commemoration windows dedicated to members of the Kenyon and Vaudrey families, who passed away between 1866 and 1917. Notably, the north window of the north transept is in memory of Catherine Elizabeth Kenyon, widow of Hon. Edward Kenyon, and was given by her brother in 1904, displaying vigorous expression. An octagonal font on colonnettes is located in the baptistry of the west tower.