Church Of The Holy Cross

The Church of the Holy Cross is an Anglican parish church displaying elements from the late 12th century, late 13th century, 15th century and 1903. It is constructed of squared and coursed dressed stone to the tower, coursed rubble with some render to the remainder, with stone dressings, ashlar copings, and stone slate roofs. The church consists of a nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle, and south porch.

The south side of the nave features a single 2-light 15th-century window with a flat head to the left of the porch, and two further 15th-century windows to the right; one 3-light window with a pointed head and hoodmould, and one 2-light window with a flat head and hoodmould. The north aisle has a single 3-light Tudor-arched 15th-century window set in a deep reveal, and a blocked Caernarvon-arched doorway. The east window of the north aisle is a 3-light Early English window.

The west tower is of three stages with diagonal buttresses, set-offs, a moulded string course, a stair turret on the south-east corner, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles below. The western buttresses at first stage have statue niches. The west face of the tower has a 3-light 19th-century Perpendicular-style window to the first stage and an oblong opening to the second, with 2-cusped-light bell openings with pierced wooden panels to all faces.

The chancel, dating to 1903, has a Perpendicular-style 3-light east window. The gabled south porch has a multi-rolled pointed-arched entrance with 2-leaf plank doors, and an inner doorway with Ringerike-style dragon stops to the hoodmould and a 19th-century plank door, with benches either side.

Inside, the 4-bay north arcade has circular piers, moulded capitals, circular abaci, and double-chamfered round arches. The nave has a wagon roof, the tower a ribbed plaster vault, and the north aisle a further wagon roof. A low, narrow chancel arch, likely from the 13th century, gives onto the 20th-century chancel with a barrel vault. There is a 1744 wall monument to the Ludlow family on the nave's north wall, near the tower; a 15th-century octagonal font with a quatrefoil frieze located by the south door; and a fine 1775 monument to Miles Earle by Nollekens on the west wall of the north arcade.