Church Of St Laurence

The Church of St. Laurence is a substantial building largely dating from 1859-61 and 1913-14, constructed in the Perpendicular style, with a late medieval west tower. The church is built of stone with slate roofs.

The west tower is battlemented and features diagonal buttresses on its west face, each with three carved boar's heads at the first stage and a cusped niche at the second. A dripmould runs above the first stage, incorporating various figured bosses including three faces, two animal heads, and flowers. The tower has a 20th-century west doorway and a 19th-century four-light west window with curvilinear tracery and a rose window above. Belfry louvres are set within arched openings on the north and south sides, topped with prominent gargoyles, while a stair turret projects to the south. A sanctus bellcote remains from an earlier structure.

The north and south aisles are buttressed and battlemented with prominent gargoyles. The north aisle has a large arched west window with five trefoil-headed lights and intersecting and Perpendicular tracery; a gabled north doorway with a heavily moulded multifoil arch; and a prominent, four-bay canted bay with crocketed pinnacles. The south aisle has a four-light west window and a gabled entrance porch with a moulded arch, gable parapet pierced by quatrefoils, and a foliated finial. A round sundial is set on the nave wall above the south porch, inscribed "JOHANNES POLLARD ET ROBERTUS TOPPING CUSTOSIAS SACRORUM ANNO DOMINI MDCCCXXIIII."

The chancel and the south chapel, which includes a transept, are in a similar style but are lower in height.

Inside, the nave is defined by a four-bay arcade of octagonal columns with moulded capitals and two-centred arches, linking three parallel naves. The nave roof is arch braced and features a kingpost with cusped windbraces. The south aisle contains relocated box pews, including those of the Standish family (circa 1600, with elaborately carved twin thrones) and the Charnock family (18th century, with a deep canopy carried on twisted barley-sugar posts). The chancel holds various 18th and 19th-century wall tablets, primarily related to the Standish family, and a glazed recess or reliquary containing old bones, reputedly relics of St. Laurence.