Church Of St Helen

The Church of St Helen is a church dating back to the 13th century. The chancel was rebuilt in 1864 by Michael Drury, and the nave was extended and restored in 1887 by C H Fowler. It is constructed of dressed stone and ashlar, with slate roofs and a side wall stack.

The church has a western bellcote and a chancel. The nave has chamfered plinths and eaves, with coped gables topped with crosses. The north side of the nave is buttressed with two flat-headed Decorated windows, and a smaller 4-centred arched window to their right. The south side has two buttresses and two mid-14th century ogee-headed two-light windows. A small single lancet window is positioned to the left. The west end features a central 19th-century 4-centred arched door and above it, a Decorated two-light window, both with hoodmoulds. A square, shingled bellcote with louvred openings sits above the window, topped with a concave-sided octagonal spire and weathercock.

The chancel has single lancets on either side, flanked by central buttresses. The east end features angle buttresses and a three-light window with Geometrical tracery, a hoodmould, and mask stops, with a trefoil containing a crest above.

Inside the nave, a blocked south arcade from the 13th century has two bays, an octagonal pier with four detached shafts, and octagonal responds with nailhead bands. Double-chamfered arches have hoodmoulds and mask stops. There are two mid-19th century stained glass windows, and a north-west window with stained glass and a brass from around 1914. The nave is covered by a panelled barrel-vaulted wooden roof with bosses. The west end includes a 19th-century two-storey gallery with a traceried balustrade and winder stair. The chancel has a double-chamfered 13th-century arch with octagonal responds and capitals, and single windows to the north, south and east with late 19th-century stained glass. It has a principal rafter roof with arch braces on corbels.

Fittings include an 18th-century square baluster-shaped font inscribed "Boultham Church," and a desk with reused 18th-century fleur-de-lys ends. Other 19th-century fittings comprise an octagonal oak skeleton pulpit, traceried stalls, a wrought-iron altar rail, and a plain octagonal font. Memorials present include two mid-19th century tablets, three brasses from around 1900 (all to the Ellison family of Boultham Hall), and a brass war memorial tablet from 1919.