Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St. Lawrence is a Commissioners' Church built around 1821 by Thomas Taylor from Leeds, constructed by Messrs. Hainsworth & Co., digging contractors. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features ashlar stonework with a Westmorland blue-slate roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a clearstorey, aisles, and a shallow sanctuary.

The tower is three stages high, embattled, and has offset gableted angle buttresses topped with tall crocketed pinnacles. The south doorway and all windows have a four-centred arch design. The west window has three lights, the second stage features a two-light window, and there is a clock on each face of the tower. The belfry has a three-light transomed opening with a traceried head. The nave has five bays, with three-light windows in the aisles and two-light windows in the clearstorey, featuring intersecting Y-tracery and tall gableted buttresses. The embattled parapets extend across the gables. The sanctuary consists of one bay with low lean-tos on either side and a five-light transomed east window.

Inside, the church has an aisle arcade supported by tall octagonal columns with moulded capitals and a coved flat-ceilinged roof. The interior is galleried on three sides, with finely carved fronts added around 1922. Above the sanctuary arch, there is Perpendicular-style panelling flanked by a contemporary painting by Madeline French. The church was re-pewed around 1877 when the first bay of the nave was transformed into a new chancel, which included choir stalls with carved poppy heads and an organ with an elaborate case. The pulpit is made of Caen stone and is octagonal, featuring shafted marble columns.