Church Of St Faith

The Church of St Faith is a parish church dating back to the 14th century, with 16th-century elements and a chancel rebuilt in 1886. It is constructed from squared coursed limestone rubble, with rendered areas and slate roofs. The church comprises a western tower, a nave, a chancel, and a north porch.

The two-stage rendered tower has a plain plinth, set-back stepped buttresses, and a battlemented parapet. It features single, chamfered, pointed, louvred belfry lights with moulded hoods. A two-light window with moulded reveals and a plain surround is situated on the south side of the tower. The west door is double-chamfered, adorned with a moulded hood and human head label stops. The north wall of the nave contains a 3-light window from the 14th century, characterized by cusped ogee heads to the lights, quatrefoils, and a double-chamfered surround. East of the porch is a similar window. The gabled north porch has a 19th-century outer arch with collared shafts, a single-chamfered arched surround, side benches, and an inner doorway with 14th-century chamfered reveals and a 19th-century moulded head. A 3-light window from the 16th century is also present in the north wall, featuring cusped heads and a bold concave chamfered surround. The 19th-century ashlar vestry has two two-light windows with moulded hoods, and a matching geometric window is situated in the north wall of the chancel, alongside a larger three-light east window in a similar style. On the south side of the chancel, two windows matching those in the north are found. The south wall of the nave accommodates three 16th-century windows mirroring those on the north side.

Internally, the tower and chancel arches are double-chamfered, supported by octagonal responds and moulded capitals. An opening in the north wall of the chancel leads to the organ chamber and vestry, featuring an octagonal respond to the east. All fittings are from the 19th century, with the exception of a 14th-century plain octagonal font, supported on a base of engaged clustered shafts, and six 16th-century bench ends at the west end of the nave. These bench ends have pointed arched tops, carvings of blank arcading, embattled brattishing, and one depicts Reynard the Fox with a goose in his mouth against a stippled ground. Three windows in the nave contain stained glass by Sir Nicholas Comper, commemorating members of the Sleight family of Binbrook Hall.

Monuments include a distinctive alabaster wall monument in the south wall of the nave, dedicated to Elizabeth, wife of Sir Francis South of Kelstern, who died in 1604. The monument portrays the deceased seated with a foot on a skull, holding an hourglass, and is flanked by putti with reversed torches and spades. A semi-circular arch rises from a gadrooned base, featuring a strapwork design with an epitaph. Beneath this is a black plaque documenting her life. A wall tablet in the north wall commemorates Ann South, who died in 1620, and a neoclassical plaque with an urn is dedicated to Richard Parnell Booth, who died in 1837, and was made by Earle of Hull.