Chapel Of Ease

The Chapel of Ease, formerly the parish church, dates from 1660, as indicated by the date on the lintel over the doorway. It replaced a medieval church in the village. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with some reused stone, possibly medieval, in the buttress and plinth at the west end. The west and north walls are made of brick. It features a pantiled roof with an open timber bell-cote at the west gable end, situated above one window that has four plain round-headed lights. The chapel has a rectangular plan with two similar windows in the south wall and additional windows in the east and north walls. There are doorways with segmental arches at the west end of the south wall.

Inside, the chapel retains original 17th-century stall pews and hat pegs. Part of the pulpit remains intact; it is octagonal with sunken panels in two tiers, set on a modern base. The ceiling is plastered. This chapel is an important example of ecclesiastical architecture from the Commonwealth period and is associated with the late 17th and 18th-century Anabaptist sect known as the Culimites, whose leader, David Culy, is believed to have preached there.