Church Of St Margaret

The Church of St Margaret is a parish church dating to the late 11th or 12th century, with a 15th-century phase and a restoration in 1879 by G.M. Hill. It is constructed of roughly coursed stone, with plain tile roofing. The building consists of a west porch, a west tower, a nave, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The late 19th-century west porch is of stone, featuring a frieze of leaded lights with diamond wood mullions, a broad pointed-arched wood architrave with hollow spandrels, and cusped bargeboards. It contains a moulded 15th-century two-centred-arched stone inner doorway with trefoiled spandrels and a partly renewed squared moulded hoodmould. The 15th-century west tower has two stages, a moulded stone plinth, battlements above a moulded string course, and trefoil-headed louvres with squared hoodmoulds to each side of the belfry. A small 2-light west window features trefoil-headed lights, cavetto mullions, and a squared hoodmould. The nave’s south elevation is of uncoursed stone, plinthless, with two 19th-century buttresses and two trefoil-headed lights. The chancel, dated 1879, is of coursed galletted stone with plinthless construction and 19th-century windows. Two rainwater heads are dated 1879. A reset plaque above the east window reads: "This chancel was rebuilt by Mrs Susanna Meredith of Leeds Abbey Anno Domini MDCCXLIX.” The north vestry is a 19th-century gabled structure with trefoil-headed lights and a hollow-chamfered east doorway. The north elevation of the nave is of roughly coursed stone and plinthless, with one buttress. It features a chamfered, rebated lancet towards the east end, with a short, narrow, blocked round-headed window beside it to the west. A 2-light 15th-century window is situated towards the centre, possessing cinquefoil-headed lights, cavetto mullions, and a squared moulded hood-mould. A small blocked ogee-headed window is found towards the west, its head formed from two blocks of stone.

The interior structure consists of an aisleless nave. A 15th-century chancel arch has casement mouldings, with one short attached shaft on either side, featuring a moulded capital and base. A similar tower arch is present. Broad pointed-arched recesses with low cills are located on either side of the nave towards the east end. The nave roof has two tall moulded crown-posts, likely medieval, set on moulded medieval tie-beams with later brattishing and ashlar pieces. The chancel has a 19th-century crown-post roof.