Church Of St Edward

The Church of St Edward is a parish church dating back to the 11th century, with significant additions and alterations in the early 14th century and 1876 by Charles Kirk. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, and has plain tile roofs with stone coped east gables and cross finials. The western gable of the tall eastern bay of the nave is weatherboarded. A C14 west bell turret features a single pointed opening with a roll moulded head, hoodmould, label stops, a stone gable above, and roll moulded sides.

The church comprises a west bell turret, a nave with a tall 19th-century bay to the east, and a rectangular chancel with a north vestry. The C14 west front has a C19 round-headed doorway with deep-set panelled double doors and a traceried fanlight, surmounted by the bell turret. A C19 rectangular window with plain leaded lights is located on the north side of the C14 nave. To the east, a projecting bay features a pointed window with a double chamfered head, nook shafts, hood mould, label stops and a corbel table above. The gabled C19 north vestry, to the east, has a pointed north window with two pointed lights and plate tracery, and an east doorway with a round, voussoired head, re-used 11th-century chamfered imposts, and a plank door. The north side of the C19 chancel features a pair of pointed lights with nook shafts, a hood mould, label stops, and a corbel table. The east end has two-stage angle buttresses, an inscribed foundation stone, three large, chamfered, pointed lights separated by four large shafts with moulded capitals, a hood mould, and label stops. Above is a round window with plate tracery quatrefoils, a hood mould, and label stops. The south side of the chancel has two pairs of pointed, chamfered lights with nook shafts, hood moulds, and label stops, divided by a two-stage buttress. A projecting C19 bay to the west has flanking buttresses, a pointed window with a chamfered surround, nook shafts, a hood mould, and label stops. The south side of the medieval nave contains an early 14th-century pointed window with three cusped, ogee-headed lights and reticulated tracery, and a blocked 11th-century doorway with a round, voussoired head and chamfered imposts.

Inside, a tall, pointed C19 chancel arch has an inner order supported on large ornate corbels, a hood mould, and label stops. North and south chancel windows have freestanding flanking shafts, hood moulds, and label stops. An east window features four large shafts with moulded capitals. A C19 vestry archway has a four-centred double-chamfered head. The church has a C19 timber roof with ornate cornices over the 19th-century bays and a flat ceiling over the medieval nave. Furnishings include a C19 pulpit, altar rail and chest, C20 pews, a tall C14 octagonal font on a tall octagonal base, and the Ten Commandments painted on the north wall of the nave. Other features include a hatchment of 1739, an ornate monument in white, red, and black marble to Frederick Oates, who died in 1862, and a single C19 monument.