Church Of St Helen

The Church of St. Helen is a parish church dating to the 14th century, with further development in the 15th century. It was restored and partially rebuilt by Ewan Christian between 1879 and 1890. The church is constructed of coursed and random rubble stone with ashlar dressings, featuring plain tile roofs and coped gables with kneelers, one incorporating a cross.

The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, vestry, and south porch. The early 15th-century west tower has three stages and a crenellated parapet. Its first stage has a triple lancet window with panel tracery and mask stops, while the third stage features four double lancets with panel tracery. The nave has a chamfered plinth and eaves band, with Decorated-style windows on its north and south sides. The chancel has diagonal buttresses and a late Decorated-style triple lancet to the east. A south porch with a cross-gabled roof provides access. The south doorway is of 14th-century style with shafts and capitals.

Inside, the aisleless nave has a 19th-century principal rafter roof with arch braces on corbels. A stained-glass window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne dates to 1877. The 14th-century tower arch has stepped conical octagonal imposts, while the restored chancel arch has moulded octagonal imposts. The chancel roof is scissor braced with arch braces and octagonal corbels. Notable fittings include an early 14th-century tub font, a late 19th-century panelled oak pulpit on an ashlar base, a timber lectern, a poor box made from a 15th-century beam with run-out stops, and chamfered softwood benches. Also present are a clergy desk, choir stalls, oval marble tablets (1755, 1768, and 1818), and two brasses from the 19th and 20th centuries.