Parish Church Of St Ricarius Or St Riquier

The parish church is located in Aberford. It was rebuilt in 1861, incorporating some original masonry and replicating the design of the former 12th-century tower. The church is constructed of squared white sandstone with slate roofs, while the tower is built of magnesian limestone.

The west tower has a short spire. The rest of the church includes a nave with north and south aisles, a porch to the south aisle, a chancel, a south chapel, and a north vestry. The architecture is primarily in a 13th-century style. The three-stage west tower features a rubble base, squared masonry, round-headed lancets to the south side and a west side intermediate level, banding to the slightly set-back upper stages, Norman-style belfry windows with two louvred lights divided by a colonette with cushion capital (the east window houses a clock face), a corbel table with corner gargoyles, an embattled parapet, and a short octagonal spire.

The four-bay nave aisles have a prominent gabled porch to the first bay of the south aisle. This porch has a two-centred arched, moulded outer and inner doorway, both under hoodmoulds with figured stops, and a wall sundial above the outer doorway. The aisles have similarly arched windows with hoodmoulds, each with two cinquefoil lights. The nave has eight trefoil clerestory windows. The chapel has a priest door and a window similar to the other openings, plus a three-light east window. The chancel has a large five-light east window with reticulated tracery. The roofs are finished with stone gable copings and apex crosses.

Inside, the church features four-bay arcades of double-chamfered two-centred arches borne on short cylindrical columns with annular caps. There is an arch-braced kingpost roof. A west gallery is supported by a Gothic-style wooden screen, now glazed. A large moulded chancel arch is present, and the wall above it is covered with figurative painting from the 20th century. There are two-bay arcades on each side of the chancel, and a relocated Norman lancet on the north side. Two large hatchments are fixed to the south aisle wall.