Church Of St Wilfrid

The Church of St. Wilfrid is a church dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, with additions and alterations in 1832 and a restoration in 1860-4. The tower of 1832 was designed by William Flint of Leicester, and the restoration work was carried out by W. Slater of London. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone and ashlar with leaded roofs, featuring stone coped gables with cross finials, buttresses, and angle buttresses with set-offs. It consists of a west tower, a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel, a north chancel vestry, and north and south porches.

The west tower is of ashlar construction, with three stages. It has a plinth, diagonal buttresses with set-offs, a west doorway with a richly moulded arch, a west window containing 19th-century stained glass, clock faces on the north, south, and west sides, four 2-light bell openings, a quatrefoil frieze, battlements, and crocketted pinnacles that continue the lines of the buttresses. A many-moulded segmental arch opens to the nave. The 14th-century nave has four-bay arcades where the mouldings have two sunk quadrants continuing to the floor. A Perpendicular-style clerestory features four 2-light flat-topped windows on either side, with a ball flower and head frieze above. The interior of the nave has a 19th-century roof with curved braces resting on carved stone corbels.

The north aisle has a northwest window with Curvilinear tracery, three north windows with Curvilinear or Reticulated tracery (two containing stained glass of 1864), and a northeast window with Reticulated tracery and stained glass of 1857. A piscina has blind Curvilinear tracery. The north porch is 15th century, with a niche over the doorway and a small 1-light window on each side. The chancel arch is similar to the arcades, and above it, a diamond window of four quatrefoils is located on the north side, and a round window of three mouchettes on the south side. The chancel has three north windows (one with stained glass of 1942), an east window with Curvilinear tracery and stained glass of 1865, and three south windows (one with stained glass of 1894). Triple sedilia with cusped arches and shafts, along with a restored piscina, are also present. A south doorway has a roll moulding on the exterior, with a hood mould featuring a dog tooth moulding. A small 1-light window with 19th-century stained glass is also present on the south side. A late 19th-century vestry sits north of the chancel. The south aisle has a southwest window and three south windows with Curvilinear tracery and stained glass dating from 1884 and 1906. The southeast window has Reticulated tracery and stained glass from 1874, and a piscina with blind tracery. A probable medieval door is within a south doorway, and a 15th-century south porch has a niche over the door (containing a 19th-century statue) and a 2-light window on each side. An octagonal font, dating from the 14th century, is decorated with a blind arcade and has a 19th-century base. A wall monument commemorating William Parker, who died in 1699, is also present. A Perpendicular-style screen, largely renewed in 1868, remains.