Church Of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a largely Perpendicular building, with a late 13th-century chancel and a west tower, a 14th-century nave, and late 14th/early 15th-century upper stages to the tower. It is constructed of coursed sandstone, with plain-tiled roofs, end parapets, and gable crosses.

The west tower stands on a splayed plinth, with embattled parapets, crocketed pinnacles, and grotesque gargoyles at the corners, supported by four-stage diagonal buttresses. A late 13th-century west window features two lights with Y-tracery in a two-centred arch. The first and second stages have loop windows, with ogee-heads and finials on the second stage. The bell stage has two openings with cinquefoil heads in two-centred arches. An octagonal sandstone ashlar spire rises above, with three single-light openings with foiled heads.

The nave has varied plinth heights, indicating different build phases. It contains three restored 19th-century windows: two of two lights, and one of three lights, all with reticulated tracery in two-centred, chamfered arches with moulded labels. The south porch is of 14th-century origin, but with 19th-century reconstruction of its side walls, featuring a gabled parapet. Its two-centred outer arch is of hollow and roll moulding on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and renewed columns. The inner arch is two-centred, composed of two continuous wave-moulded orders with a label and mask stops. A late 17th-century wall monument is set into the east wall of the south aisle within a bolection-moulded surround, although the inscription has eroded.

The chancel's south wall has two windows, each of two lights with Y-tracery in two-centred, chamfered arches with labels. A two-centred arch doorway leads to the chancel, displaying two continuous cavetto mouldings. A low, round-arched window is found at the west end of the chancel. An 18th-century chest tomb is located adjacent to the chancel on the south side. The east window is a 19th-century design, consisting of three lights. A blocked, two-centred north doorway to the nave has a single continuous wave moulding.

The interior features a 13th-century west tower arch with three chamfered orders to a two-centred arch. The aisleless nave has a 19th-century roof of five bays. The 13th-century chancel arch is two-centred and of two chamfered orders. The chancel incorporates a double piscina, with trefoil heads to two bays set within a two-centred arch, the spandrel containing a quatrefoil. A monument to Sir William Dugdale (died 1685), the antiquary of Blyth Hall, is set into the north wall, comprising a plain tomb chest with a shield and garland and a back panel with an open segmental pediment. The north vestry has a reset Norman window. The font is comprised of a 12th-century bowl on a 20th-century base, with a tapering cylindrical bowl, a frieze of intersecting arcading on columns with pedimented capitals, and bands of running foliage and cable ornament. A 16th-century oak chest with iron fastenings is also present.