Church Of St Catherine

The Church of St. Catherine is an Anglican parish church with a 18th-century tower and a main body rebuilt in 1876-7 by William Butterfield. The church is constructed of limestone and flint chequers, with a tiled roof and coped verges; the tower is of Flemish bond brick with a shingled roof. It consists of a nave, a south aisle, a chancel, a south vestry, a west tower, and a north porch, all executed in a Decorated style.

The north porch is stone-gabled, with pierced bargeboards and a timber-framed door surround. The north side of the nave has a continuous moulded string course and two 2-light windows featuring fine reticulated tracery and drip moulds, with a buttress to the left. The north side of the chancel has two 2-light windows with reticulated tracery and hood moulds. The east window is 3-light with reticulated tracery and a hood mould. The east end of the south aisle has a pair of trefoiled lancets. The south aisle has a pointed door with scrolled terminals, a pair of cusped lancets under one hoodmould, and two pairs of trefoiled lancets. The west end of the aisle is marked by a single quatrefoil. A rectangular stair turret on the south side of the tower has a square-headed light. All windows feature diamond leading.

The four-stage 18th-century west tower is brick with ashlar quoins and some earlier limestone masonry in the plinth. It features angle buttresses. The second stage has a 2-light geometric-traceried window with a drip mould; the third stage has a trefoiled lancet. The bell stage is oak-shingled with two pairs of trefoiled lancets in wood and a pyramidal oak-shingled roof.

Inside, the nave has plain white painted walls and a pointed barrel-vaulted timber roof. A pointed double-chamfered arcade divides the nave and aisle. The south aisle has a lean-to roof with through purlins on kneed principals. The high chancel arch has double-cyma and hollow moulding, possibly remnants of a Medieval arch. The chancel has a polychrome tiled floor and a timber pointed barrel-vaulted roof. A pointed arch leads to the organ chamber on the south side. The chancel also features a blind doorway and a trefoiled piscina with a continuous string course. Original pews and an octagonal stone font by Butterfield are present. Beautifully coloured stained glass is in the east window by Gibbs. A marble wall tablet on the north wall of the nave commemorates Robert Grailly, who died in 1811.