Parish Church Of St Lawrence

The Parish Church of St Lawrence is a church largely dating from 1628, with a restoration in 1875. The tower may incorporate earlier fabric. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and has gable-ended stone slate roofs with stone copings bearing cross finials. Aisle roofs are hidden behind embattled parapets. The church is built in a "very late 'perpendicular'" or survival of Gothic style.

The plan consists of a west tower, nave, chancel, north and south aisles, and a south porch, which now serves as a vestry. The west tower has two stages with an embattled parapet, gargoyles, crocketted corner finials, a semi-circular vice turret, and diagonal buttresses (possibly later additions). A blocked semi-circular arch is on the north side; the south door is 19th century with a 2-centred head, continuously moulded jambs, and a stopped label. Bell chamber windows are single-light with a 2-centred head, no label, and pierced stone panels.

North and south aisle and chancel windows have a characteristic early 17th-century pattern of three square-headed, graduated lights with stopped and returned labels. Each light has a 4-centred head, and the mullions are hollow-chamfered. The east and west windows are similarly designed but of two lights. The east chancel window is of four lights, the central two being raised. The chancel gable has a trefoil stone panel and round kneeler profiles. The south porch door has a moulded round head springing from moulded imposts, with moulded jambs below. The chancel door has a moulded, semi-circular head with a stopped label and continuous jambs, while the nave door has a moulded 2-centred head, continuous jambs, and a stopped label.

Internally, the church features three-bay nave arcades with moulded 2-centred arches and flat soffits bearing carved roses; the central arch has a pendant. The arcades spring from octagonal piers with moulded dentilled capitals, round headed concave panels, and moulded bases. A round chancel arch has a flat soffit and pendant keystone springing from corbels. A 2-centred, moulded tower arch is also present. There is a wooden chancel arch screen with scrolls, Ionic pilasters, pinnacles, and strapwork. A similar screen exists in the north aisle. Barrel vault roofs are in the chancel and nave, with carved bosses; the aisles have flat roofs. The octagonal font is gadrooned with Vitruvian waves on a twisted stem, with a scrolled wooden cover. An octagonal pulpit has a dentilled cornice and reeded panels. The communion rails are turned, and there are 17th-century pews with scalloped bench ends, reeded through styles, and interrupted rails. Similar dado panelling is within the chancel. The church also contains 18th, 19th, and 20th-century monuments, notably to Thomas Chafe and others from around 1720.