Church Of St David

The Church of St David is a parish church dating back to 1676, with significant alterations in 1858 and 1884. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a Westmorland slate roof. A rendered plinth runs along the base of the nave, largely obscured by concrete render, with a later plinth to the vestry. The church comprises a two-bay nave, a west porch, a north-facing vestry, a single-bay chancel, and an adjoining south-side organ chamber.

The south side of the nave features three windows with 19th-century wooden Y-tracery, a blocked Tudor-arched doorway to the right, and a 19th-century corbelled ashlar cornice. Two north windows were re-opened in the 19th century. The west side has single lancets flanking the porch, a two-course brick band at eaves level, and a projecting central section containing a carved ashlar tablet bearing the date and the arms of the Smithsons of Stanwick. Above this is a stone-coped gable with shaped kneelers, a bellcote with a pair of pointed bell openings, a pierced quatrefoil beneath a pointed arch, and a coped gable with a pinnacle. The single-storey porch has a south entrance with a two-fold Gothic-panelled door and a two-light Y-traceried west window beneath a stone-coped gable. The vestry has a similar door to the west and a window to the north, also beneath a stone-coped gable. All openings to the nave, porch, and vestry have Tudor arches and brick surrounds. A trefoiled lancet is set in ashlar to the chancel and organ chamber, alongside a reset pointed three-light ashlar traceried east window from 1857.

Inside, a pointed chancel arch features roll moldings on twin-shafted responds with foliate capitals. The nave and chancel have open roofs with trusses on moulded ashlar corbels. A white marble floor slab is located at the east end of the nave, dedicated to Samuel and Betty Birt, dating to around 1773. Numerous wall tablets are present in the nave and chancel, commemorating individuals such as Judith Fisher (1773), Reverend John Umpleby (around 1839, with an inscribed sarcophagus), Sarah and Octavia Umpleby (with a miniature sarcophagus tablet), Peter Wells (1845, with broken columns), William Wells (1854, with a pilastered surround and moulded pediment), William Wells (around 1825, with a draped urn), and Louisa Anne Wells (1848, with a carved cornice and relief panel with a dove). Stained glass windows by Powell Brothers of Leeds, dating from 1896-1902, are found in the nave and chancel north and south windows. Painted Royal Arms are displayed over the west door. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are also present.