Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a church dating from the 12th to 14th centuries, with significant rebuilding in the 17th century and alterations in the 19th century, including work in 1841 and later. A substantial re-ordering occurred in 1913 when Sir Charles Nicholson added a new nave, north aisle, and chancel on the north side, along with replacement roofs. The church is constructed of coursed ironstone rubble and squared blocks with ashlar dressings, and has lead and slate roofs.

The building comprises a west tower, a three-bay aisled nave with a south porch and two-bay chancel, and a four-bay north nave with a north aisle, three-bay chancel, and a vestry on the north side, all executed in a Gothic Revival style. The two-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses, a west lancet with a hood mould, a string course, and reset 12th-century two-light belfry openings with nook shafts and trefoiled heads, flanked by reset parapet details. The south aisle of the nave has two pairs of lancets between buttresses, single lancets at each end, and a plain parapet. The south porch features a 12th-century dogtooth moulded pointed-arch doorway with moulded capitals for nook shafts, a stone-coped gable, and a slate roof. It contains an 18th-century inner doorway with a round arch and moulded capitals. The original chancel has a string course, a pointed priests' door, three lancets with a cill band, and three stepped lancets at the east end, all with hood-moulds. Later sections include five three-light clerestory windows in the nave and chancel, two lancets on the south side of the chancel, and traceried pointed windows to the north side of the chancel, north aisle, and east and west ends. Tower, early chancel, and the 20th-century nave and chancel all have battlemented parapets and low-pitched lead roofs.

Inside, the 14th-century south arcade showcases octagonal piers, plain moulded capitals, and double-chamfered pointed arches. The late 12th-century north arcade has cylindrical piers, scalloped capitals (one with a carved corner head), and early 13th-century pointed arches with keeled and pellet mouldings. A 12th-century pointed tower arch is double-chamfered with responds. The 13th-century chancel arch is double-chamfered, with triple-shafted responds and moulded capitals. The 20th-century nave and chancel arcades have diagonally-set chamfered square piers and chamfered pointed arches. Arched triforium openings appear in the earlier nave. A chapel contains marble wall monuments to the Healey family, created by M Taylor, York (1834), Skelton, York (1839), and W Audby, Hull (1842), the last two featuring carved coffins. The floor includes 17th-century grave-slabs. A 1775 wall tablet in the tower records a bequest by Thomas Williamson. An 12th-century font sits on a clustered shaft base and is covered with a 17th-century carved wooden cover.