Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a church dating from the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone and sandstone ashlar, with copper roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a nave with aisles, a south porch, a chancel, a north transept, and a vestry.

The west tower is of the 15th century, consisting of four stages divided by string courses, with angle buttresses. It features a west door and a three-light window above. Clock faces are present on the north and south sides, alongside pairs of two-light bell openings to each face. The tower's upper stage exhibits a frieze of shields and tracery motifs, surmounted by battlements. The nave, chancel and aisles have embattled parapets with two- and three-light windows under flat arches; nave windows feature cusping. The east window has reticulated tracery, while the vestry window, of the 14th century, displays an unusual tracery pattern of encircled trefoils. A gabled south porch has a broad ogee-arched doorway with pinnacles and niches, incorporating a pointed tunnel vault with transverse arches. A studded oak plank door serves as the entrance. The south aisle was rebuilt in 1860, with the north aisle and clerestory restored in 1872 by S Rollinson, and a general restoration undertaken by R H Carpenter & Ingelow between 1878 and 1880. A 14th-century effigy of a knight is set within an ogee-arched recess in the south side of the chancel.

Inside, four-bay arcades feature two circular piers and semi-octagonal responds. The capitals are plainly moulded, and the arches are double-chamfered. The western bay is a 15th-century addition exhibiting semi-octagonal responds and capitals bearing shields displayed upside down. The tower arch has two concave chamfers with shields aligned correctly. A double-chamfered chancel arch is also present. A 12th-century window is located between the north transept and the vestry, characterized by a large size, nailhead detailing along the arch and jambs, and curious elongated volutes to the capitals. A Norman font, large and circular with fluting to the lower portions, is situated at the east end of the south aisle, while a second font, octagonal with curved sides and dated 1662, is found at the west end. A slab with a foliated cross resides within the south porch, along with three 14th-century reliefs. A depiction of the Martyrdom of St Lawrence is displayed under a cusped broad ogee arch at the east end of the south aisle, alongside the Annunciation and Christ and the Virgin in Majesty with Angels, each within a tripartite composition featuring cusped and crocketed ogee arches on the vestry's north and east walls respectively. A tomb recess on the north side of the chancel contains a 13th-century effigy of a knight. Near the south door stands a monument to John and Mary Brailsford, dated 1714, exhibiting three composite columns on brackets and a pediment. A wall memorial to Thomas Holland (1776) featuring a draped urn and a weeping putto is found on the south wall of the vestry, along with other 18th and early 19th-century wall tablets, including one to Rev Edward Lowe by J. Hadfield. The nave roof has 15th-century moulded tie beams. An early 20th-century rood screen stands alongside a 15th-century rood stair. Stained glass is present in the east window (1879, by Clayton & Bell), and numerous other windows contain 19th-century stained glass.