Church Of St Wilfrid

The Church of St. Wilfrid is a church dating to the 12th century, with substantial rebuilding in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. It was renovated in the 19th century by G. F. Bodley and underwent a major renovation in 1985. The church is constructed of ashlar limestone, with Welsh slate and sheet metal roofing.

The church comprises a west tower, a two-bay aisled nave with a south porch, and a two-bay aisled chancel with a north vestry. It is built in the Perpendicular style and features embattled parapets with renewed crocketed pinnacles.

The west tower has a chamfered plinth and moulded band, with diagonal offset buttresses. A three-light west window has been displaced to the left by an internal stair turret. The clock sits beneath two two-light belfry openings, which have renewed, uncusped tracery. A string course with gargoyles runs along the tower, with a saddle-back roof behind the parapet.

The south porch, located to the left and set in the angle with the aisle, has transverse arches, an ashlar roof, and a coped gable with a cross. The south aisle contains four-light windows with Tudor-arched lights, set between panelled buttresses. A moulded, round-arched north doorway is present, with square-headed windows to the left featuring ogee-headed lights. A two-light clerestory window is interrupted by the aisle roof.

The chancel has a south chapel door with moulded jambs and an arched lintel. The 19th-century north vestry adjoins the chancel. The chancel clerestory incorporates three-light and two-light windows with Tudor-arched lights. The three-light east window features cusped lights and a square head, with a hoodmould incorporating face-carved stops. Flanking the east window are panelled buttresses, and a south chapel window with three Tudor-arched lights and cusped tracery and a two-light north chapel window with a hoodmould. The east end has a peaked parapet with a cross.

Inside, the tower arch is double-chamfered. The two-bay north arcade has octagonal piers supporting double-chamfered arches dating to the mid-16th century. A wider single arch to the south aisle springs from brackets, also from the early 16th century. The mid-12th century chancel arch has shafts with decorated abaci and voussoirs, featuring barrel moulding and zig-zag ornament. Chapel arcades have octagonal piers and arches of two, hollow-chamfered orders. The chancel roof has newly gilded and painted panels. A cylindrical font with a floral frieze is from the 12th century. A collection of fine monuments, fitments, and sculpture was removed for conservation at the time of resurvey.