Church Of St Edmund

The Church of St Edmund is a church built in 1881 by H.R. Price, constructed from coursed squared sandstone rubble with a slate roof, designed in a geometrical style. It features a seven-bay nave with north and south aisles, a polygonal apse, and an unfinished north-east tower. The nave includes a clerestory with paired 2-centred arched single-light windows that have trefoil tracery, and a large 6-light west window with multifoil tracery. The apse is adorned with gabled traceried lancets that have shafts. At the west end of the north aisle, there is a gabled porch featuring a moulded 2-centred arch with included shafts. The square tower is only built to the first two stages and has angle-buttresses, with a foundation stone dated July 1881 and an east doorway that is moulded in four orders under a gablet.

Inside, the church has lofty arcades supported by polished granite columns and moulded 2-centred arches. The chancel arch features corbelled shafts, and the nave has an elaborate open-truss timber roof, while the chancel has a wooden barrel-vault roof. The stone wall of the chancel includes an inbuilt pulpit and lectern, with a sounding board above the pulpit. There are residual gables over the lancet windows of the apse, with intervening shafts. The baptistery at the west end of the south aisle is enclosed by a glazed Gothic screen and contains a marble font. The stained glass in the apse was created by Shrigley and Hunt around 1912. The church is no longer used for worship.