Church Of St Edmund

The Church of St Edmund is a parish church rebuilt in 1795, with alterations and extensions in the mid-19th century and a further extension in 1987. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, and has a concrete tile roof to all but the tower, which is lead. The building is set on an ashlar plinth and comprises a tower, nave, south porch, vestry, and a polygonal chancel.

The two-stage tower sits on an ashlar plinth and is topped with a 20th-century planked rectangular lantern with a moulded lead roof and single round arched, louvred openings to each side. A round arched doorway with a keystone and impost stones provides access to the tower on the west side. A panelled door is set within the archway. Above the band is a blocked segmental arched window. Blind round archways with keystone and impost stones are visible on the north and south sides, with some glazing to the south. The north side incorporates the projecting 20th-century vestry. Circular lights are positioned above the band, blocked on the north side and glazed on the south. The north nave has three round arched windows with lead glazing bars and keystones. The north chancel has a single blind round arched recessed panel with a keystone. The east side has a single round arched window with a flush ashlar quoin surround, and the south side has a single round arched casement with lead glazing bars and a keystone, with a blocked segmental arched doorway to the left. The south nave has three round arched 19th-century windows with ashlar plate tracery, each containing two pointed arched lights, and a continuous moulded brick hood mould. A slightly projecting 19th-century porch with an ashlar coped gable and a single cross finial is located to the left. Two colonettes with decorative capitals support a moulded brick arch, and the inner doorway has a moulded pointed arch with a plank door and ashlar tympanum.

The interior features a panelled west gallery supported on a pair of rectangular piers with a dentil cornice. A segmental arched doorway leads to the tower, with a smaller doorway to the right. A basket arched tower arch is present, alongside panelled box pews. A staircase to the gallery is within the tower, featuring a turned newel. Memorials include those to Francis Taylor (1818), with a broken pediment and urn; Jane Taylor (1823), flanked by tapering pilasters and topped with a decorated urn; Joseph Taylor (1816), flanked by pilasters and topped with a sarcophagus; Benjamin Taylor (1803), with bracket and shield decoration to the apron; Michael Cole (1812), in the form of a sarcophagus topped with an urn; Adlard Squire Stukeley (1768), surmounted by a sarcophagus; and Thomas Griffin, topped with a broken pediment and urn.