Church Of St Ambrose

The Church of St. Ambrose is a church built in 1805 and enlarged in the 1890s, designed by Paley and Austin, although the planned steeple and porch were never completed. It is constructed from squared sandstone and has a slate roof. The building features a west tower and nave from 1805, a later chancel under a continuous roof, a north aisle with a pitched roof, and a south porch that is partly timber.

The slim west tower has a blank ground floor and a sill band beneath a lunette west window with a plain stone surround. The bell openings are also lunettes with a continuous sill band. The tower is topped with crude battlements made of stone blocks and has corner pinnacles. The south nave wall consists of three bays, with windows that have plain stone surrounds featuring a central square mullion that branches into a Y under a semi-circular head, complete with impost blocks and an impost band. The entrance door, located between the first and second bays, has a plain stone surround and is sheltered by a later 19th-century timbered porch.

The chancel, which is accessed beyond a buttress with offsets, has one bay on the south side. Its window consists of three lights with a pointed head, while the east window has four lights with pointed heads and segmental heads to the lights, along with tracery. The north aisle windows each have flat heads and two lights with segmental heads. The west nave window features two lights with reticulated tracery under a flat head.

Inside, there is a five-bay timber arcade supported by rectangular chamfered posts braced to an arcade plate. The roof timbers are exposed, with the nave showcasing main trusses that include a tie beam, a king post rising to an arch-braced collar, and short queen struts; the intermediate trusses only have arch-braced collars. The chancel contains double sedilia and a piscina. The east window features late 19th-century glass depicting the figures of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and there is a simple rood with the beam formed from one of the ties.