Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a medieval church, with significant rebuilding and additions in the 19th century. The west end is original, and the remainder of the church was largely rebuilt in 1837, with an aisle added in 1860. It is constructed of regular coursed lias with limestone dressings. The chancel has some squared rubble in its south wall, and parts of the north wall and vestry are brick with a dentil cornice. The roofs are tiled, except for the vestry which has a slate roof.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle, and north vestry, with a west porch turret. The nave has three bays, and the chancel two. The chancel features angle buttresses to the east wall and a 19th-century east window with Geometrical tracery and a hood mould. The south side has a blocked, chamfered 4-centred doorway. A 15th-century window on the south side has a square head and two cinque-foiled lights with glazed spandrels, set in a deep moulded reveal. A medieval lancet window is located in the west end. The nave has straight-headed windows with two or three trefoiled round-arched lights, and the central window consists of two shouldered lights. The west end features two lancets and a central turret that is buttressed on its square first stage. The west doorway has arched double leaves with applied blind Y-tracery and a hood mould. Narrow, shouldered lights are located on the north and south sides. The turret changes from a square shape to an octagon near the top, displaying a moulded trefoil opening on all four sides. A string course terminates in a lion mask, above which the rendered top stage has narrow lancet openings on all sides. The turret is crowned by a pyramidal roof. The low, lean-to aisle has paired trefoiled ogee lights. The north wall has two small, two-light chamfered stone mullioned windows. Lead lattice windows are found throughout the building. The north vestry, set at a right angle to the chancel, has a six-panelled arched door on its north side, and the east side has four casements with glazing bars set within brick segmental arches.

The church interior features king post roofs with heavy timbers, partly obscured by a ceiling. The walls and ceiling are plastered. The chancel arch has two chamfered orders and octagonal shafts. The nave includes a simple, panelled west gallery. The two-bay arcade comprises simple chamfered arches and a square, chamfered pier lacking capitals or imposts. Aisle windows are set in large reveals with chamfered lintels. Fittings include 19th-century Gothic altar rails and a pulpit, along with a simple, stone font shaped like a flowerpot. The east window contains stained glass by Hardman dating from 1860. The chancel and nave roofs incorporate stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.