Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St Botolph is a parish church with medieval origins, significantly altered in the early and 19th centuries. The main construction is of coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings, with the tower built of limestone rubble. The chancel and chapel have clay tile roofs, while the nave and aisles have slate roofs. The church includes a chancel, a north rector's vestry, a north organ chamber and choir vestry, a south chapel, a nave, north and south aisles, and a west porch/tower.

The late 19th century chancel features a three-light pointed-arched east window and a two-light pointed south window. The north rector’s vestry, also late 19th century, has a two-light window and a flat-roofed, 20th-century brick addition. A projecting gable with a flat-headed four-light north window marks the north organ chamber and choir vestry, also from the late 19th century. The south (Nativity) Chapel, also late 19th century, has a two-light pointed east window, a three-light square-headed south window, and a three-centred arched south doorway.

The 15th-century nave was reworked in the 19th century. There are four-bay north and south arcades—parts of the north arcade are original. The clerestories on both sides have four two-light square-headed windows. 19th-century embattled parapets cap the nave. The east part of the north aisle (now the north chapel) is medieval and partly reworked in the 19th century. The taller western part of the north aisle, likely built in 1855, contains three square-headed three-light windows. The east part of the north aisle has a three-light square-headed window above a four-centred headed doorway, which in turn is surmounted by a two-light square-headed window. A three-light east window gives onto the north organ chamber. A rose window is located at the west end. The north aisle parapet is embattled.

The 15th-century west porch/tower was repaired in the 17th, 18th, and 1855. It comprises three stages, divided by string courses, with diagonal buttresses to the west angles and a 19th-century embattled parapet. The bell stage has square-headed two-light windows on each side. The south elevation has a pointed-arched doorway surmounted by a square-headed single light; the west elevation has a pointed-arched doorway.

Inside, the roofs are mainly 19th century, though one original moulded king-post truss with figured corbels remains in the northeast corner of the north aisle. A 15th-century traceried screen is also present in the north aisle. A 14th-century circular font has four moulded shafts forming the corners. A tomb chest with an effigy of a knight, believed to be Sir William Tyrington (died c.1400), is in the north aisle, along with brasses commemorating John Danvers, rector (c.1410), and Sir John de Gyse IV (c.1500). There are two polychrome marble wall monuments in the north aisle, dedicated to Francis Norcliffe (1724) and William Wright (1807). A brass commemorating William Stone, rector from 1583 to 1617, is set within a simple marble strapwork surround on the north wall of the chancel.