Church Of St Chad

The Church of St. Chad is a parish church with origins in the late 11th century, significantly altered and restored in the 13th, 14th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble, with some limestone ashlar detailing, and has plain tiled roofs with stone coped gables.

The church features a west tower, a nave with a south aisle and south porch, and a rectangular chancel. The west tower is of late 11th-century origin, displaying a plinth and quoins. A pointed early 13th-century window is located on the west side, with a stone above commemorating the erection of a clock in 1746 in memory of the Duke of Cumberland's victory. A narrow rectangular light is visible on the south side, while the restored 19th-century bell chamber openings have two round-headed openings separated by a deep-set round pier with a primitive volute capital. The north nave wall was rebuilt in the 19th century, featuring two rectangular windows, each of three cusped lights with ogee heads, reticulated tracery, and a hood mould. A large two-stage buttress is situated to the east. The lower 19th-century chancel has plain north and south walls and a three-light pointed east window with geometric tracery.

The east end of the south aisle has a pointed, early 14th-century window with restored tracery of three lights, the central light with an ogee head and the flanking lights with round heads and five cusped mouchettes. The south side of the south aisle exhibits a mid-14th-century window to the east with two lights and flattened ogee heads, four cusped mouchettes, and head label stops. A larger, restored 19th-century window to the west has four lights with flattened ogee heads, eight cusped mouchettes, and label stops. The 14th-century south porch has a small two-light window with cusped ogee heads. A pointed south doorway within the porch has an inner chamfered order supported on polygonal capitals and responds, and a scored and moulded outer order and hood mould. A two-stage buttress is located on the west side of the porch, alongside a rectangular window with two cusped ogee headed lights, restored in the 19th century.

The interior of the porch is flanked by stone benches, with a pointed 19th-century doorway, a 20th-century plank door, and re-used 14th-century label stop heads. A niche with a shallow triangular head is positioned above the doorway. The southwest corner of the nave features two-stage angle buttresses. A pointed late 13th-century window is present in the south aisle, featuring three lights with trefoiled heads and plate tracery. The interior tower arch is double chamfered with a pointed head supported on polygonal capitals and responds. The south arcade dates to around 1300, a total of three bays, with two western bays of about 1300 displaying double chamfered round heads, a semi-circular west respond and central round pier, plain capitals, and hood moulds.