Church House Church Of St Edmund

The Church House, which incorporates the Church of St Edmund, was built in 1849 as a chapel-school designed by William Butterfield. It was intended to serve as a school during the week and a church on Sundays, with a schoolmaster's house attached. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brick with tile roofs, including ridge cresting, and has a brick internal stack to the rear. It combines a chancel, nave, north vestry, and a west tower that forms part of the house. It is an example of a simple Gothic Revival style.

The church comprises a one-bay chancel and a three-bay nave. The attached house is a one-unit plan, three storeys high, with a one-window range. The chancel features a simple plinth and tile-coped diagonal buttresses of two offsets, along with a three-light east window with Gothic tracery, using limestone tracery throughout. A small wooden window is present on the south side, and a small lean-to vestry has a chamfered straight-headed east window. The nave roof slopes lower than the chancel roof. Buttresses on the nave have a single offset. A south-west porch features a chamfered segmental-pointed arch, with open five-light wooden openings on each side, and a segmental-pointed double-leaf plank door inside. Two four-light windows with trefoiled lancets are also present. The north side has one window, and an outshut is located on the western part. The tower has wood cross windows with brick segmental arches and a pyramid roof with an arched wood bellcote and a steep pyramid roof. A two-storey range set back on the left has a segmental-pointed plank door and a hipped roof.

The interior of the church is plastered, with exposed red brick gables. The chancel has a segmental arched vestry door and a chamfered brick segmental-pointed chancel arch. Both the chancel and nave have arched brace roofs, with the nave also featuring king posts. The windows have run-out chamfered wood lintels. Original fittings include a stone font with a shaft of quatrefoil section and a chevron moulding, a quartered bowl with lozenge moulding, and simple chamfered benches. Later additions include mid-to-late 20th-century panelling and a pulpit. The church is oriented north-south.