Church Of St Wilfrid

The Church of St Wilfrid is a church dating back to the 13th century, with subsequent work in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries and a restoration in 1858. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed squared stone, with a graduated stone slate roof.

The church comprises a west tower, a clerestoried aisled nave with a south porch, a chancel with a vestry and a south chantry. The three-stage Perpendicular tower features offset diagonal buttresses. A large arched Perpendicular window of three lights with a hoodmould occupies the west side, alongside a boarded door set within a four-centred arched surround, forming a buttressed porch with a small one-light window above. The second stage includes an octagonal sided clock face to the west and a segmental-arched two-light Perpendicular window to the south. A chamfered band runs across the tower, above which are arched belfry windows, cusped of three lights with a hoodmould, and a moulded band. The tower is topped by an embattled parapet with four small pinnacles at each corner.

The nave is of Perpendicular style, with three bays. The aisles, which embrace the tower, extend over four bays and feature a plinth. A gabled south porch is set to the right of the left-hand bay, with offset angle buttresses, an arched doorway with columns on either side and a hoodmould. Stone coping with a gable cross tops the porch, and an arched surround frames the inner boarded door. The south aisle incorporates offset angle buttresses and three windows: a three-light flat-headed window to the left, and two further three-light flat-headed windows to the right, all with hoodmoulds and a chamfered parapet. The clerestory has three two-light flat-headed windows with hoodmoulds and a gable cross.

The chancel is three bays wide, with small offset angle buttresses. A boarded door in a moulded arched surround, flanked by arched, cusped two-light Perpendicular windows with hoodmoulds, is positioned to the right of the left-hand bay. A 14th-century arched cusped Y-tracery window is also present. The east end has a large three-light arched cusped Perpendicular window with a hoodmould at its centre, along with a 16th-century two-light flat-headed window with four-centred arched lights and a hoodmould to the right, and a 14th-century two-light Y-tracery window and a boarded door in a chamfered surround with a three-centred arch to the left.

Inside, a chamfered tower arch, arcades of three bays with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches are present. A similar chancel arch is also noted. The chancel arcades echo those of the nave. A Norman font stands on a square base, and a Jacobean pulpit rests on baluster feet. A good 14th-century alabaster panel depicting the Nativity is located in the vestry, alongside fragments of pre-Norman Conquest crosses and hog backs.