Church Of St Augustine

The Church of St Augustine, dating to approximately 1401, was built for Bishop Skirlaw and has undergone subsequent additions and alterations. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a concealed roof and is designed in the Perpendicular style.

The church features a three-stage west tower, a six-bay continuous nave and chancel, a south porch to the second bay, and a north vestry to the sixth bay. The tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets, crocketed pinnacles to the top of the second stage, a chamfered plinth with a quatrefoil band, and a hollow-moulded sill band. A three-light pointed window is set within a double-chamfered surround, with a hollow-chamfered hoodmould and label stops that continue as a band to the sides. The second stage has a brattished band, and a niche is located on the west side for a statue. The tower also has two-light, pointed bell openings with blind trefoil-headed lights below transom level, a band with fleurons and gargoyles, and pierced, traceried and crocketed battlements with crocketed pinnacles.

The nave and chancel have buttresses with offsets surmounted by pinnacles with crocketed finials between bays, a double-chamfered plinth, and battlemented parapets. The south side has an embattled, single-low-storey porch to the second bay, featuring a Tudor-arched opening with glass and timber doors, leading to a studded plank door within a hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded surround under a roll-moulded hood with face stops. A pointed plank priest's door, set in a double-chamfered surround under a hollow-chamfered hoodmould, is located to the fifth bay. Pointed three-light windows with hoodmoulds and shield stops are present in each bay, with hollow-moulded sills, except to the second bay. The windows to the second and fifth bays are shorter. An eaves band is present, along with battlemented parapets.

The north side features a studded plank door in a pointed, hollow-chamfered, and roll-moulded surround under a hoodmould with face stops to the second bay. The sixth bay contains a single-bay, low-storey embattled vestry with an oblong window and a pointed plank door to the west. Otherwise, it features three-light pointed windows with hollow-chamfered hoodmoulds, shield stops, and a sill band, except to the sixth bay. Again, the windows to the second and sixth bays are shorter, and there are battlemented parapets. The east end has a five-light pointed window with a hollow-chamfered hoodmould. All windows have Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds.

Inside, the tower arch is triple-chamfered pointed, with roll-moulded jambs and capitals. The piscina has an ogeed arch with roll-moulding and an octagonal bowl. Two corbels are present to the east end. Traces of red wall painting and black inscriptions are visible on the south wall and west end. A 19th-century octagonal font and four Neoclassical early 19th-century wall monuments are also within the chancel. Fragments of medieval stained glass are incorporated into the East window.