Church Of St Wilfrid

The Church of St Wilfrid is an Anglican church built in 1938 by architect A Randall Wells. It is constructed from coursed thin gritstone rubble and features a flat roof originally covered with Permanite, along with a timber tower and spire clad in shingles. The church has a plan that includes a three-bay nave with a very narrow, low aisle, a crossing with a polygonal tower and spire, transepts, a choir, and a round apse.

The exterior windows exhibit an Early English Gothic influence, featuring groups of five straight-sided pointed lancets set in a relieving arch of stones that are flush with the wall face. The side windows include large rectangular glazed panels in the center. The aisles are blind, and the apse has small pointed windows on the north and south sides. There is a single-storey vestry and porch located in the re-entrant angles of the nave, transepts, and choir, which have plain mullioned windows. The timber tower is gabled on each face, and the spire includes louvred bell openings.

Inside, the church showcases Expressionist-style massive plastered quoined vaults that rise from window-sill level, with square-section piers supporting the aisles. Shallow pointed arches and round-arched recesses are found between the vaults. The doors, choir stalls, and screens are made of Columbian pine, while turned wood screens are used for the lectern and pulpit, with chairs made of ash. The original flooring consisted of rubber on asphalt, and the heating system was provided by a gas boiler, hot water battery, and electric fan, along with indirect electric lighting. The total cost of the structure was £11,700, excluding fees, while the furniture and fittings amounted to £800. The church has seating for 402 people, with an additional 34 in the choir.