Church Of St Chad

The Church of St Chad is a church built between 1864 and 1866 by architect J. Medland Taylor. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a clay tile roof. The church comprises a nave, aisles, transepts, a north-west tower, and a polygonal apse. The three-bay aisles do not have a clerestory and include a projecting plinth, weathered buttresses, paired cusped lancet windows, and overhanging eaves. The transepts also have two similar lancets with a rose window above, and there is a porch on a short column on the south side only.

The chancel features two-light windows with plate tracery, a continuous sill band, an inscribed band, and contrasting red sandstone voussoirs. The roof has gablet vents and coped gables with finials. The three-stage tower has angled weathered buttresses, one of which incorporates a stair turret. Each stage of the tower has one and two-light openings, enriched gabled clock surrounds, and a broach spire with hipped lucarnes.

Inside, the church has a double-chamfered nave arcade with heavily enriched capitals depicting the four evangelists, St. Chad, Queen Victoria, and the Prince Consort in an early French Gothic style. The roof features scissor-braced trusses with a barrel vault in the chancel. The chancel arch is supported by corbelled colonnettes. There is part Jacobean panelling in the chancel, a Caen stone pulpit, an ornate reredos from 1881, sedilia from 1899, and stained glass, with the chancel glass donated by John Bright.