Church of St Aidan

Mission Church of 1900 erected as a Chapel of Ease.

MATERIALS: built on a brick plinth the chapel is of timber-framed construction clad in galvanised corrugated iron, under a corrugated iron roof covering. The bellcote is of timber and has an iron bell. The windows have timber frames and cills. The interior walls, roof and vestries are matchboarded.

PLAN: a small chapel (12.2m by 5.5m) built on a north-east/south-west axis, comprising a nave and chancel under the same roof with inserted vestries both sides of the altar at the chancel end (north-east). It has a south porch with an adjacent shed. There is a vestry door to the north-east corner, accessed by brick steps.

EXTERIOR: the corrugated iron elevations overhang a brick plinth and have timber cross windows: three windows set high in the eaves to both principal elevations; and two to each end. To the south-west corner the projecting porch has a Tudor-arched door with ornamental door handle under a pitched roof with bargeboards and a cross. To the left is a later C20 timber shed. The chancel end has shaped bargeboards with a cross fixed to the apex. Two sign boards are fixed to below window cill level. The north-west elevation has a door to the left and three windows to the right. To the south end of the roof is a square bellcote with a bell of 1900 from the J Taylor Foundry.

INTERIOR: the walls and roof are lined with matchboard. The timber roof trusses are exposed below the collar and have metal bracing. The timber altar is fixed to a plinth at the chancel end and has vestries fitted to each side. The floor level of the chancel is raised from the nave by one step.