Church of Saint Hilda

The Church of Saint Hilda is a building with origins dating back to the 11th century, incorporating significant elements from the 15th century and a 1904 restoration by Caröe and Passmore. It is constructed of sandstone rubble, with irregular quoins, some laid in a herringbone pattern, and a stone flag roof. A square bellcote sits at the west end, supported on piers that partially obscure a 15th-century pointed window with three trefoil-headed lights and panel tracery. A simple opening is present on the west face of the bellcote. A gabled south porch, added in 1904, contains a pointed doorway with a corbelled hood-mould and an iron-studded door, likely reinforced in the 15th century. To the east of the porch is a blocked pointed arch, probably from a 15th-century chapel, now containing rebuilt paired lights. Renewed windows are located on the north and south walls, and a blocked doorway is centered on the north wall. A small buttress stands further west, and a diagonal buttress is at the east end. A blocked shallow pointed doorway gives access to the chancel, with a restored lancet window to the east and a renewed window to the left. The 15th-century east window features three trefoil-headed lights with panel tracery.

Inside, the 13th-century pointed chancel arch has two chamfered orders that spring from 11th-century responds with attached shafts and cushion capitals. Incised spiral carvings are on the capitals and bases, and a zigzag design adorns the responds. A blocked pointed archway in the south wall of the nave, with restored imposts, indicates a former chapel; a portion of an earlier window arch remains above. The head of a shallow pointed arch of the former north doorway survives in the north wall. A chamfered 11th- or 12th-century altar stone, marked with an incised cross, is present. A circular font, dating to the 11th or 12th century, rests on a base constructed in 1904. A piscina and aumbry are located in the chancel south wall. An 18th-century octagonal pulpit, with raised and fielded panels, an ogee tester inlaid on the underside, and a finial, stands in the nave. Altar panelling and restored poppyhead pews date to the same period. Fragments of pre-Conquest sculpture are incorporated into the nave and chancel south walls and the porch.