Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St. Lawrence is a parish church dating back to the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 14th and 15th centuries, and restored in the 19th century. It is constructed of squared, coursed ironstone with some rubble, and has a tile roof. The church comprises a chancel, a nave with a clerestory, and a west tower.

The chancel has flat and offset diagonal buttresses with a coped gable to the east. It contains a 19th-century east window of three lights with reticulated tracery. A 15th-century three-light window is set within a round-headed, hollow-chamfered arch to the south, alongside a plank door within a pointed, hollow-chamfered arch with label stops. There are two round-headed lights from the 12th century with chamfered surrounds to the north, and a small cusped squint.

The nave has offset buttresses, a string course, and a battlemented parapet. A 19th-century plank door is set within a 12th-century arch of two orders of shafts with curved capitals, incorporating a Romanesque head at its apex. A 15th-century porch has a coped parapet with gargoyles, a moulded arch with label stops, and small cusped lights on either side. A 12th-century light with a zig-zag hood mould is located to the left of the porch, and a 14th-century three-light window with reticulated tracery is positioned further to the left. A 12th-century arch of two orders of shafts with carved capitals and zig-zag moulding frames a plank door to the south; a corbel table of seven carved heads sits above the arch. A 19th-century two-light window is also present to the south. The clerestory features renewed 15th-century two-light windows.

The west tower has two stages with offset buttresses, a continuous hood mould, string courses, and a battlemented parapet with gargoyles. A 15th-century three-light window, partly renewed, is located on the west side, with stair turret lights to the left. The bell stage incorporates 15th-century two-light windows with stone louvres.

Inside, the 12th-century windows to the north of the chancel have zig-zag hood moulds. A cusped piscina is present in the south wall. The double chamfered chancel arch is supported by shafts with scallop capitals. Window seats are found in the north aisle and the south wall of the chancel. A string course runs along the nave walls, continuing over the doorways. The 15th-century tower arch is triple and hollow-chamfered, with polygonal, hollow-sided imposts. The church has 19th-century roofs. A 12th-century font, decorated with blind arcading, carvings of Adam and Eve, scrolls, and plant motifs, is also present. Five 15th-century oak pews are in situ, one having been altered, and parts of a former screen are reset in the tower screen. There are three 17th-century floor slabs, heavily worn, one dated 164-.