Church Of St Chad

The Church of St. Chad is a parish church dating from the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th and 14th centuries, and a restoration in the 19th century. The church is constructed of ashlar with clay tile roofs, except for the south aisle roof which is leaded. It features a three-bay chancel, a two-bay nave, north and south aisles, and a west tower topped with a stone spire. The tower has diagonal buttresses.

The chancel is from the 13th century, with lancet windows, including two tall lights to the east end. The south aisle has 2- and 3-light windows incorporating 19th-century reticulated tracery and a crenellated parapet. A gabled south porch has a pointed doorway with a hood mould and flanking colonettes. The clerestory windows are of 2 cusped lights set beneath a square head. The 19th-century north aisle features windows with Geometric tracery and a gabled porch. The church is buttressed at all bay divisions and corners.

The west tower, dating to the 14th century, has three stages marked by string courses. It features a restored west doorway and window with cusped intersecting tracery. The belfry openings are of 2 lights with cusped Y-tracery, and the parapet is crenellated with corner pinnacles and a second tier of pinnacles on the spire.

Inside, two 12th-century cylindrical piers support a round-arch nave arcade. The aisles clasp the tower, and tower arches extend to the east, north, and south with continuous chamfers. Notable fittings include a small, fluted octagonal font, likely dating from around 1660, and trefoil-headed sedilia and a piscina.