Church Of St Agnes With St Simon

The Church of St Agnes with St Simon is a church dating from 1886, designed by W Wood Bethel. It is built of random Pennant rubble with squared and coursed buttresses, limestone dressings and a tiled roof. The church is in the Decorated Gothic Revival style.

The east window has reticulated tracery and foliate hood stops. Setback buttresses have square gableted pinnacles, and a drip mould runs around the building. The vestry north gable has two lancet windows separated by a buttress, with a valley roof. An octagonal stair turret for the organ loft is situated in the angle of a porch to the west, featuring a coped gable, gableted kneelers and an apex, with steps leading to a lancet doorway with scrolled reveals. The north aisle has three bays with intersecting tracery windows, separated by buttresses and a sloping roof below the clerestory, which comprises eight bays of paired square-headed windows. A small, gableted spirelet sits above the chancel arch.

The three-stage tower is divided by drip moulds with Tudor roses, with setback buttresses and an octagonal stair turret. The west door has scrolled reveals and foliate stops to the hoodmould, which incorporates a canopied niche containing a figure of the Virgin. First-floor windows feature reticulated tracery, with clocks above. Belfry windows have two mullions and elaborate open tracery with a fleur-de-lys to the hoodmould, surmounted by an open crenellated parapet, square pinnacles and a pyramidal top to the stair turret. The west gable has a large window with reticulated tracery, flanked by square pinnacles.

Inside, the three-bay chancel features a piscina and sedilia with Tudor rose chamfers and two pointed arches to the sides, accommodating the organ bay to the north and a chapel to the south. The chancel arch has carved capitals depicting figures of saints. The five-bay nave has unmoulded arches with figured capitals and a roof of close-set collar rafters. Among the fittings is a stone octagonal pulpit with mosaic panels and Tudor roses. Offices and community rooms were inserted into the three western bays in 1991, alongside repair work undertaken by Ferguson Mann, architects.