Church Of Saint Mary Magdalen

The Church of Saint Mary Magdalen is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century. It was rebuilt in the 14th century, with additions and alterations made in the 15th century. The church underwent restoration around 1857 by William Slater. The structure is built of coursed rubble, featuring a mixture of ironstone, limestone, and cobblestones, with ashlar dressings and clay tile roofs.

The layout includes a chancel, a north vestry, a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. All parts of the church, except for the chancel, have embattled parapets. The chancel, primarily from the 14th century, has a reworked roof, east end, and windows from the 19th century, including a three-light pointed-arched east window. The south elevation features two pointed-arched two-light windows and a pointed-arched priest's door, while the north elevation has similar windows flanking a doorway to the vestry. The north vestry, added in the 19th century, has a slate roof.

The nave, dating from the 14th century, originally had a steep-pitched roof, which was replaced by a shallower one when the aisle walls were raised in the 15th century. It features three-bay pointed-arched arcades on both sides, with a chancel arch in the same style and a 15th-century tower arch. The north aisle has two three-light pointed-arched windows, with only the central lights being trefoiled, and a pointed-arched north doorway. The east elevation of the north aisle includes a three-light pointed-arched window with a cusped sexfoil in a circle at the head. The west window from the 15th century has three lights under a depressed arch. The south aisle has similar window designs to the north aisle, but two south windows feature more ornate 15th-century tracery, along with a pointed-arched doorway.

The south porch, dating from the 14th century, includes a parvis above, with a pointed archway topped by an image niche and a small square-headed window that lights the parvis. Access to the parvis is provided by a staircase at the northeast angle that opens onto the aisle. The west tower, built in the 15th century and reworked in the 19th century, has three stages, with angle buttresses on the west side, a 19th-century semi-octagonal stair turret at the northeast angle, and a short leaded spire. The bell-stage features a two-light pointed-arched window on each side, while the ground stage on the west elevation has a pointed-arched doorway topped by a two-light pointed-arched window.

Inside, the nave and aisles have 15th-century roofs with moulded beams and foliate bosses, along with 19th-century pewing. The church also contains a 13th-century font with a round bowl on a single column and several plain wall monuments, mostly from the 19th century.