Church Of St Mark

The Church of St Mark is a church built in 1847 by William Butterfield. It features a mix of random rubble with freestone dressings and has a graduated green slate roof. The church is designed in a simple Decorated style.

The layout includes a nave with a west bellcote, a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. The west end of the nave has sturdy angle buttresses with weathered offsets, a two-centred arched two-light west window with a double-chamfered surround, cusped lights, and a quatrefoil in the head. The steeply-pitched gable coping is interrupted by a gabled bellcote that has a weathered band and a pair of cusped openings.

The prominent gabled porch on the south side has its roof ridge at the same level as the nave eaves. It features a chamfered plinth, a large two-centred arched doorway with a moulded design in two orders, a heavy board door, gable coping with an apex cross, and a pair of small cusped windows on each side wall. To the right of the porch is a window similar to the one at the west end. The chancel, which is only slightly lower than the nave, has one smaller but similar window on each side and a large three-light east window with a moulded surround, ogival-headed lights, geometrical tracery, and a hoodmould.

Inside, the church has a plain panelled dado and plastered walls. The roof features scissor-braced common rafters with ashlar pieces and collars for each pair, resembling a wagon roof. The chancel arch is double-chamfered and has a simple Perpendicular-style wooden screen, flanked by painted Biblical texts. The chancel includes a panelled reredos and an arch-braced common-rafter roof. The overall design is simple yet boldly modelled, with main features like the buttresses, porch, and roof structure executed with conviction.