Church Of St Mary Magdalene

Church. Originally a chapel built in 1837-8, the gift of Mrs Arnold and designed by J B Watson. A chancel was added in 1842 by J Wild, a north aisle in 1845 (possibly by J P Harrison), a tower in 1850, and a south aisle completed in 1863 by St Aubyn. The tower is constructed of sandstone blocks, while the remainder is of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, all under plain tiled roofs. The building comprises an aisled nave with a chancel to the east and a tower to the west.

The tower has three stages with offset diagonal buttresses and string courses between each stage on the north and south faces only. It features double lancet openings to the top stage and a decorated style window to the west face of the lower stage. Three trefoil-head and roundel windows light the south aisle on a sill course with hood moulds above. The north aisle has renewed lancet fenestration under a pentice roof. The chancel has corbelled eaves, particularly in the angle with the south aisle. A bellcote sits on the roof at the junction of the nave and chancel. A gabled stone porch to the south has hood moulding and foliage stops to the entrance, with a corbelled surround to a studded door.

Interior features include round pier arcades with roll moulded plinths (three piers on each arcade), half-octagonal responds to the east ends, and a chamfered and corbelled tower arch with semi-circular responds on the chancel arch. The south aisle roof has billeted braces with a double row of windbraces above. The chancel contains triple sedilia with a flanking aumbry on the south wall, an arcaded and gilded reredos behind the altar, and an arcaded rear arch to the east window. Nineteenth and early twentieth-century panelling lines the chancel with a stone floor. A panelled pulpit stands on a stone plinth with an octagonal plain tub font on a squat multi-shaft stem.

A wall monument to Mr G Rennie, a bridge builder and designer, is located on the west wall.