Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a parish church dating to 1901-1904, designed by John Dodsley Webster & Son, with a later tower added in 1959. It is constructed from squared dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof, featuring a single side wall ashlar stack. The church is of Gothic Revival style.

The plan incorporates a nave with clerestory and aisles, a chancel, double gabled transepts, a south-west porch, an organ chamber, a vestry, and a north-west tower. Externally, features include a plinth, string courses, buttresses, coped gables with kneelers and crosses. The windows are generally untraceried and many have hoodmoulds. The chancel has a graduated 5-light window to the east, and single lancets on the north and south sides. The nave clerestory has ten pairs of lancets on each side. The west end of the nave has two lancets, a graduated 4-light window above, and a cusped oval window above that. The aisles each have two graduated 3-light windows, with a 2-light window in the south aisle's west end and two lancet windows to the east. The north aisle features the tower and an under-tower porch. A gabled porch with a double chamfered doorway is located on the south aisle. The double gabled transepts have two graduated 3-light windows each. The north transept has a cove moulded doorway to the west. A two-storey parapeted vestry to the south-east has a door, window, and two windows above, along with windows on both floors. The parapeted organ chamber to the north-east has a single window facing north and east. The square, parapeted tower, with three stages, features four-centred arched doorways with wrought-iron gates on the east and west sides, a plain window above, and a clock above that. A four-centred arched door with an external stair is on the north side, and the bell stage has a rebated 2-light opening on each side.

Inside, the chancel arch is double chamfered, with ringed shaft imposts and a hoodmould, leading to a coped screen wall. The chancel has a string course and a wagon roof with arch braces and corbels. It contains double chamfered arches for the organ and a door with windows above. The nave has five-bay arcades with double chamfered arches and round piers, and a double purlin principal rafter roof with arch braces and wall shafts. The aisles have lean-to roofs and doorways at their western ends. The north aisle has a double chamfered arch to the east. The transepts are open, forming a Lady Chapel (north) and a Chapel of Chivalry (south). Fittings include an octagonal ashlar font with carved niches and alabaster shafts, a traceried panelled octagonal wooden pulpit on a stone base, stalls with carved ends, and a brass eagle lectern dated 1879. A memorial window from 1918 is located at the east end of the chancel. Stained glass windows by A.J. Davies of Bromsgrove, dating from circa 1936, are found in the nave's west end, north and south aisles. The south aisle contains a memorial east window from 1917, by Kayll & Reed of Sheffield, and a memorial window from 1947. Notably, a pedimented wooden war memorial tablet, dating from circa 1918, is also present.