Church of St Denys

The Church of St Denys is a parish church that dates primarily from the 13th century, with alterations made in the 15th century. It is constructed of ironstone with ashlar dressings and features a west tower, nave, aisles, and chancel, all topped with lead roofs.

The tower is three stages high and supported by clasping buttresses. It has a lancet window on the west side and additional lancets on the north and south sides of the ringing chamber. The belfry windows are two-light with shaft and plate tracery, featuring a punched quatrefoil design. Below the crenellated parapet, there is a corbel table with angle pinnacles. The spire is octagonal and made of ironstone, with one tier of gabled two-light lucarnes on alternating facets. The aisle windows are late 14th century, two-light with ogee shapes and square hoods. The south doorway is notable for its three orders of shafts adorned with nailhead and dog-tooth motifs, and there is a long gabled south porch. The north aisle doorway also features dog-tooth decoration. A clerestory was added in the 15th century, with three two-light windows on each side; those on the south have triangular heads, while those on the north are square. The north chancel has one 13th-century lancet window, a three-light east window, and two two-light south chancel windows with Y tracery.

Inside, the church has a three-bay arcade supported by circular piers on waterholding bases. The north piers have polygonal capitals, while the south piers have circular capitals with nailhead decoration. The arches are double chamfered, and the tower arch is triple chamfered with polygonal responds, as is the chancel arch. The nave roof features canted tie beams that rest on solid arched braces leading to wall posts and corbels, with a moulded ridge piece and one pair of moulded butt purlins. The chancel screen from the 15th century has four cusped ogee lights on either side of a wavy central opening, with a moulded cornice above and a traceried dado below. The chancel roof from the 16th century has canted tie beams with a King post spur to the ridge piece and one pair of butt purlins.