Church Of St Barnabas

The Church of St Barnabas is a church built between 1867 and 1868 by CC Townsend, with a tower added between 1888 and 1891. It is constructed of coursed, squared rock-faced limestone with gritstone dressings and quoins. The roofs are steeply pitched Westmorland slate, with pierced terracotta ridge tiles, a gabled bellcote to the east gable of the nave, and ridge crosses to the chancel and nave gables. Stone coped gables have moulded kneelers.

The church includes a south-west tower, a nave, a lower chancel, and a north vestry. The west elevation features a three-stage tower with stepped, full-height, corner buttresses. The ground floor has a pair of trefoil-headed lancet windows. Above is a stringcourse containing a single central lancet, and then a clock face. A further stringcourse features louvred, flat-headed, two-light bell openings with flowing tracery on all sides. Moulded stringcourses with gargoyles, and embattled parapets follow. The north side of the nave has steps leading to a continuously moulded, double chamfered doorcase with a hoodmould and a plank door, above which are two large lancets, with a recessed quatrefoil window in the gable. The north elevation has five tall lancet windows. The east side of the vestry has a flat-headed, four-light chamfered mullion window with pointed lights and a central major mullion. A pointed doorcase and trefoil-headed lancet are on the east wall of the vestry. The east window comprises three stepped chamfered lancets, flanked by diagonal buttresses. The gable of the east window features two contrasting gritstone bands, below which is a stone plaque inscribed “AD 1867 THS XP”. Two chamfered lancets are present in the south chancel wall, with a stepped buttress between the chancel and nave. The nave has four similar lancet windows. A projecting tower to the west has a pointed south door with chamfered jambs, a moulded top, and a hood over, and above it, a nodding ogeed niche.

Inside, a wide chamfered chancel arch is supported by a wooden tie with a crucifix. The interior features a crown post roof. The chancel has an organ bay to the north, with a trefoil-headed piscina beyond to the east. The east window has roll-moulded arches on thin shafts and includes a cusped wooden altar and altar back. To the south, three seats are set within arched recesses. Early 18th-century carved panels are reused in the pulpit and as chancel rails. A 19th-century stone font has an octagonal stem and bowl.