Church Of St Mark

The Church of St Mark is a church built between 1848 and 1849 by Joseph Clarke for the Church Commissioners, with the tower added in 1880-1881 by J. Eaton and Sons. It is constructed of snecked stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church includes a nave with aisles, a clerestory, a porch, and a north-west tower, as well as a chancel that has a vestry and an organ chamber. The five-bay nave and aisles are adorned with paired lancet windows, weathered buttresses that clasp at the corners, and circular clerestory lights. The porch is located in the second bay. The four-stage tower has angle buttresses, lancet openings, clock faces, and a machicolated parapet with stepped merlons and grotesque gargoyles. The gables are coped and topped with cross finials. The piers at the east end of the nave were originally topped with large pinnacles, which now serve as garden features. Inside, the nave arcade features alternating round and octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases, a double-chamfered chancel arch, and scissor-braced roof trusses. The interior also includes various timber fittings, stained glass, and an alabaster font.