Church of St Helen

The Church of St Helen is a Grade II* listed building, dating from around 1500, with the nave and chancel rebuilt in 1894. It is constructed of squared sandstone and features a stone slate roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, a lower chancel, north and south aisles with short transepts, and a south porch.

The three-stage tower is supported by angle buttresses and features an embattled parapet with a string course, gargoyles, and corner pinnacles. The bell openings have pointed heads and hoods, with two cusped lights and panel tracery above. The west wall displays a window with three cusped lights and panel tracery, while the west door is deeply chamfered with a pointed head and hood. A worn carved crucifix and the arms of the Tempest family are found on the north-west buttress. The aisle and clerestory windows have flat heads and cusped lights, and the east window consists of five cusped lights under a Tudor-arched head and hood. The east and west windows of the south aisle, likely from the 16th century, feature three lights, with the inner light having a segmental head and the outer lights being pointed. The aisles are topped with battlements, and the inner porch door is reconstructed, featuring a cavetto moulding and a two-centred head.

Inside, the five-bay arcade has pointed arches of two chamfered orders set on octagonal piers. Above the tall pointed tower arch, the roof line of an earlier church is visible. The inner arch of the west door is adorned with nine re-set carved heads, some of which are worn. The north wall of the chancel has a chamfered doorway with a segmental head, while the south side features a 17th-century wall monument to Christopher Wilkinson.

The church has open timber roofs, with the nave roof supported by bolted king posts rising through arch-braced collars, and the wind braces exhibit carved decoration. An early 16th-century octagonal sandstone font has a base with decorative motifs and a bowl carved with shields depicting the instruments of the Passion.