Church Of St Alban

The Church of St Alban is a Gothic Revival style church dating to 1855, constructed by Mallinson and Healey. The church incorporates fragments of medieval decorative material. It is built of banded pebble and reddish-brown brick with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building comprises a 4-bay nave with a south aisle, south porch, and north vestry, together with a 2-bay chancel.

The west end features buttresses with offsets, and a large 3-light pointed window within a double-chamfered surround, topped by a hoodmould with face stops and a brick relieving arch. To the west of the aisle is an ogeed lancet window, also within a double-chamfered surround. The south aisle’s gabled porch has a pointed-arched, double-chamfered opening with hollow-and-roll moulding to the head, topped by a hoodmould incorporating reused medieval face stops. It contains a pointed, studded double plank door within a moulded surround, and has stone copings to the gable. A 2-light window is located to the first bay of the aisle; other bays have 3-light windows, all within double-chamfered, 4-centred surrounds. The north side features buttresses, and two 2-light pointed windows to the two westernmost bays, set within double-chamfered surrounds under hoodmoulds. The vestry has a plank door in an ogeed surround. To the east end of the north side is a 2-light pointed window within a double-chamfered surround. The nave has ashlar copings, and a twin-light, gabled bell turret ascends from the east apex. The chancel incorporates buttresses, a plank priest's door in an ogeed surround, and two 2-light pointed windows within double-chamfered surrounds. The east end has a similar 3-light window under a hoodmould with reused face stops, topped with a cross at the apex.

Inside, a 4-bay arcade features double-chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases. A double-chamfered, pointed chancel arch is present with octagonal responds, moulded capitals and bases. An octagonal font sits upon a shaft, and a neoclassical wall tablet commemorates Matthew Topham, who died in 1823. Fragments of medieval zigzag decoration can be seen in the outer north side wall towards the west end and within the south porch.