Church Of St Helen

The Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1855 by J.B. Clacy. It is made of coursed and dressed limestone that has a highly ferruginous and ruddy color, with buff-colored ashlar dressings. The church features stone-coped gables and a stone slate roof. It includes a chancel with a north vestry, and a nave with a north chapel, all designed in an Early English style.

The apsidal east end has a hood mould over five trefoil-headed lancets. The two-bay chancel has similar lancets and a moulded trefoil-arched south door. The vestry has a two-light window, a pointed-arched door, and a two-light geometrical-style window at the gable end, adjoining a short stair turret topped with a broached pyramidal cap. A bellcote is located at the east end of the nave.

The five-bay nave features plain lancets, with paired lancets in the east bay, separated by offset buttresses. The south porch has pointed moulded doors with engaged shafts on the outer door, and three-light trefoil-headed side windows. The west window is a three-light stepped lancet, and all windows have hood moulds with ballflower stops.

Inside, the vault in the apsidal sanctuary has groins that continue as shafts with ballflower capitals. The double-chamfered sanctuary arch also has engaged shafts with ballflower capitals. In the chancel, there are hood moulds over rere-arches with bell capitals on engaged shafts, and poppyhead bench ends. An oak screen to the vestry features trefoil-headed arches divided by ringed shafts with bell capitals and trefoiled spandrels.

Steps lead from the vestry through a trefoil-arched door to a pulpit facing the nave, which has a stone canopy above a richly-carved square pulpit in the style of the 13th century, complete with marble corner shafts. The reader's desk has a circular rail of 13th-century style trefoil-headed arches, and the roof includes enamelled text plates.