Parish Church Of St Mary Magdelene

The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene was constructed between 1861 and 1862, designed by Hicks. It comprises a nave, chancel, a north porch, a small bell tower, and a south-east vestry. The north elevation features rubble stone walls with a chamfered plinth, and ashlar stone dressings. The roof is covered with plain and fish-scale tiles, featuring stone gable-copings, gableted moulded kneelers, and crosses at each gable apex. Low buttresses have two set-offs. The north porch has a pointed arch entrance with chamfered jambs, nook-shafts, foliage capitals, and roll and hollow mouldings. A three-stage square bell tower is set into an angle between the porch and nave, broaching into an octagon in the two upper stages. Each face of the bell stage has single lancet windows with pierced trefoils above, and is gabled with grotesque head-stops. An octagonal spirelet, ribbed along each arris, tops the tower. The chancel has two lancet windows, and an east window of three stepped cusped lancets with a label and foliage stops. The south-east vestry, situated off the chancel, has a pentice tile roof with gable-copings, and a coupled lancet window. Inside, the nave windows have segmental-pointed rere-arches. The roof is of a high, arch-braced collar type, with braces carried on short hammer-beams resting on naturalistic foliage and angel-supported carved stone corbels. The pointed chancel arch has naturalistic foliage capitals and short responds corbelled off with angel-supporters. The chancel also has scissor-braced arch-bracing carried on foliage-carved corbels. A segmental-pointed doorway leads to the vestry. The pulpit, by Boulton, is stone, half-octagonal, and corbelled-out from a squared-off base. It features four carved panels with diaper foliage ornament, a foliage cornice, and angels in roundels. The central panel has an ogee niche with a cusped head, containing a carved figure of Christ in the round. The standards at the corners have small heads and finials. The font is stone, with an octagonal bowl and circular base, displaying foiled designs on each face. A smaller, round font bowl on a short base is from the previous church. Stained glass includes a depiction of Christ Crucified in a mandorla with Saints John and Mary in the east window, and grisaille glass with foliage patterns in the side windows. A font from the old church is also present. The architectural sculpture within the church is of notable quality.