Church Of Immanuel

The Church of Immanuel is a parish church built in 1856 by Benjamin Ferrey, with later additions of transepts. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring bands of blue engineering brick and ashlar dressings. The roof is made of machine tiles with fishscale patterns and has coped verges supported by carved stone kneelers. The church has a dentilled eaves cornice, which is supported by a brick corbel table, and there is an ornamental brick band at the cill level around the main body of the church and the transepts.

The nave and chancel are combined, and there was originally a belfry with a shingle spirelet at the junction. The church has later north and south transepts, which serve as an organ chamber and vestry, respectively, along with a south porch. On the south side of the nave, there are two quatrefoils at different levels to the west of the porch and a paired lancet with a roundel above to the east. The west wall features two lancets and an elaborately cusped rose window, along with a late 20th-century gabled bellcote. The north side has three paired lancets with roundels above, similar to those on the south, with the easternmost being cut by the transept.

The chancel contains two trefoil-headed lancets with cusped trefoils above on the north side and an elaborately cusped east window made up of three lancets. The porch has a triple-chamfered doorway, while the north transept, built in 1898, and the south transept, built around 1904, are designed in a style consistent with the rest of the church. The foundation stone for the north transept was laid by Isabella, Viscountess Hill, on April 30th, 1898.

Inside, the church features an arch-braced roof with six bays, where the bracing for the former spirelet is still visible at the junction between the nave and chancel. The interior includes mid- to late 19th-century fittings and furnishings, with notable original features such as an octagonal font adorned with religious monograms and a Greek palindrome, as well as a stone pulpit with intricate foliage carvings. There is also an elaborately carved organ from 1898 and a west gallery.