Church Of St Chad

The Church of St Chad is a parish church dating back to the early 13th century, with later alterations and additions in the late 13th century, 14th century, 1856, 1902, and 1914. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with slate roofs and stone-coped gables. The church comprises a western tower, a clerestoried nave with two aisles, a chancel, a south porch, and a north vestry.

The early 13th-century unbuttressed tower has three stages, divided by two string courses, and is topped with a battlemented parapet having corner pinnacles. Single lancet windows are present on each stage, with paired lancets in the belfry stage. The north wall of the north aisle features a 14th-century ogee-headed doorway flanked by single two-light windows with cusped ogee heads and segmental hood moulds, with a similar four-light window further east. The 1902 vestry has a two-light window and door, and a cusped two-light window in its east wall. The chancel's east wall contains a three-light 19th-century window with panel tracery. The south wall incorporates two- and three-light windows of 14th-century style. The south aisle has two three-light 14th-century windows with flat heads, and a further similar window to the west of the porch. The clerestory on both sides has three 19th-century paired lights under flat hood moulds. The 1914 south porch has a cusped outer arch surmounted by a niche containing a carving of St Chad, along with side benches and quatrefoil side lights. The inner doorway is 13th-century with a single chamfer, hood mould and label stops; one is an ammonite, and the other a human head.

Inside, the three-bay early 13th-century north and south arcades have quatrefoil piers with slender shafts at the diagonals, keeled responds, quatrefoil capitals, double-chamfered arches, hood moulds, and human head label stops. The south arcade has some nail head decoration. The tower arch features octagonal imposts and capitals, a double-chamfered arch with a hood mould, and ammonite label stops. The chancel arch has keeled responds, annular capitals, and a double-chamfered arch. A small glazed cupboard in the west end of the south aisle contains a small leather medieval chalice case. A 19th-century door provides access to the vestry and a triangular headed aumbry with original 17th-century doors and decorative ironwork hinges is in the chancel north wall. At the east end of the chancel are two repositioned carved 13th-century statue brackets supported on human heads. The 19th-century chancel roof is painted. All other fittings are 19th or 20th century, including a chancel screen of 1912. A 15th-century octagonal font has fleurons and seated figures of saints in niches to both pedestal and bowl. The north aisle contains 20th-century stained glass depicting St Chad. A monument to Robert Grantham, who died in 1541, is located on the chancel south wall and was restored in 1857. It features a kneeling figure before a book, flanked by Doric columns supporting an entablature, above which is an inscription surmounted by oval armorial panels.