Church Of St Botolph

The Church of St. Botolph is a parish church with origins in the mid-12th century, incorporating a heavily restored 19th-century chancel and a 14th-century west tower. The church is constructed of a mixture of clunch, ashlar, and carstone, with some brick, and the nave is rendered. The nave roof is slate, while the chancel has plain tiles.

The tower is three-stage with diagonal buttresses to the second stage. It features a 15th-century three-light Perpendicular west window with a moulded hood featuring head stops, from which a string course runs around the tower. The ringing chamber has blocked square-headed lancets to the north, west, and south, the west lancet being below a blocked triangular-headed window with a brick surround. A string course sits at the belfry level, beneath the two-light trefoiled belfry windows. The tower is topped with a brick crenellated parapet. A polygonal brick stair turret is located to the southeast, braced by a stepped buttress. The gabled south porch has a raised parapet and is entered through a depressed arch.

The 12th-century south door has single-order shafts with incised cushion capitals carrying herringbone decorated imposts below a zig-zag arch, elaborated with a modified beak head and a hood mould of cable decoration. Secondary bulbous imposts support a tympanum with a central relief of an alisee pattee cross surrounded by cable moulding. The south nave has two windows: one 2-light square-headed with a mid-14th century hood, and one of paired pointed lancets within an early 13th-century arch. Two plain buttresses flank the south side. The chancel south side retains a plain buttress and two renewed lancets. The rebuilt east wall, dating from 1877, has a three-light intersecting window flanked by stepped buttresses. A similar buttress is present on the north chancel side, with a 20th-century brick buttress, but no windows. The north nave is supported by three plain 19th-century brick buttresses. This side features one 12th-century lancet, one early 13th-century round-headed lancet with a hood mould, and a blocked 12th-century ashlar doorway.

Internally, ashlar surrounds the nave doors. The tower has a triple chamfered arch. A plain octagonal font stands on a plinth with two steps. The nave has a 19th-century king post roof. The north lancet features rere arches and a wide splay. The 12th-century chancel arch has single-order shafts with scalloped capitals below square imposts, a flat hollow chamfered inner arch on broaches, and a zig-zag outer arch, the zig-zag element being the only part not rebuilt in 1877. Shapeless recesses are located on either side of the chancel arch. The chancel has a scissor-braced roof from 1877.