Church Of St Mary And St Milburgh

The Church of St Mary and St Milburgh is a parish church located in Offenham, with a 15th-century tower and the remainder built between 1861 and 1862 by Frederick Preedy. The church features a west tower, nave, north aisle, and chancel, constructed from coursed lias rubble with ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. The west tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, a crenellated parapet adorned with crocketted pinnacles and gargoyles. The belfry openings consist of two ogee trefoiled heads beneath a square label, while the ground stage includes a small west window with an ogee head and a crocketted label.

The nave comprises four bays and includes a south porch at the western bay, which is a gabled stone structure with a 2-centred arch. There are two windows with two pointed lights under 2-centred heads to the east, and a third window with three lights under a 2-centred head. The chancel features two trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head to the west and a trefoiled lancet to the east, with the east window displaying three trefoiled lights under a 2-centred head with a label. The north aisle has four bays divided by stepped buttresses, with the inner two bays containing windows of two 2-centred lights, and the outer bays featuring trefoiled lancets.

Inside, the nave has a 15th-century tower arch with a 2-centred shape, its spandrels filled with foliage beneath a square label. The north arcade consists of four bays with circular and octagonal columns supporting 2-centred arches of two orders. The chancel arch is also 2-centred and of two orders, with the inner order resting on respond shafts. The roofs include a nave with four bays supported by arch-braced collar trusses on stone corbels, an aisle roof with four bays featuring collars and scissors-braces to the trusses, and a chancel of three bays similar to the nave. Notable fittings include an octagonal 15th-century front with quatrefoil side panels.