Church Of Holy Cross

The Church of Holy Cross is a parish church built in 1877 by T.H. Wyatt, replacing an earlier church of the same name. It is constructed of coursed pecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and features plain tiled roofs with tiled ridges and stone gable copings, as well as a snecked stone spire. The church is designed in the Early English style and includes a nave with a north aisle, a chancel with a north vestry, and a north-west tower.

The tower, which has three stages, features an extruded vice in the west corner, a north door, two lancet windows above, and a clock. It also has paired louvred bell-openings set in a shafted two-centred arch, along with stepped angle buttresses, an eaves corbel table, and a broach spire adorned with lucarnes and a vane. The church has a three-bay nave and a two-bay chancel on the south side, as well as a two-bay north aisle and a gabled vestry with a small door.

Inside, the church is plastered with stone features. The north arcade has two wide chamfered and moulded two-centred arches supported by a round pier and half-round responds. The roof is an arch-braced collar-beam design, and the nave floor is tiled. The pulpit and the base of the chancel screen are made of stone and marble, while the wood upper screen, which is in a very high arch, serves as a World War I memorial and features side shafts with carved capitals. The chancel floor is raised and made of polished limestone.

The church contains stained glass windows, including an East window and one south window by Kempe, created in 1879 and 1903, respectively. There is also a window featuring Saints Cecilia and Ursula by A.K. Nicholson from 1923, and another window commemorating the Marquis of Ailesbury and General Gordon of Khartoum with warlike saints, created in 1886.