Church Of St Lawrence

The Church of St Lawrence is a parish church with its earliest structure dating back to around 1200. Significant rebuilding occurred in the early 19th century by architect Robert Smirke for William Dent, with inscriptions noting the names of the masons and the clerk of works. The church was further remodeled in the late 19th century by J.S. Crowther. It features coursed, squared rubble with dressed stone details, stone blocks for the tower, and ashlar for the porches. The roofs are covered with graduated slate, complete with stone copings, kneelers, and gable crosses.

The church includes a west tower, a four-bay nave, a transept, and an aisless chancel, all of which are buttressed. The tower is a three-stage, castellated structure from the 15th century. There is an ornate gabled porch on the south side of the first nave bay, dated 1811, which has a plank door. The aisle windows are 19th-century, designed in the Decorated style, while the clerestory is squat with small, round windows. The gable end of the transept features two 19th-century lancets with a wheel window above. The three-bay chancel has an ornate central 19th-century porch, with Decorated style windows on either side and above.

Inside, the nave arcade is supported by pointed arches on filleted, quadripartite piers, with surviving parts from around 1200 featuring keeled major shafts. The 19th-century south chapel includes wall arcading, paintings, and Minton tiles, separated from the main church by an arcaded wooden screen. There is an early 16th-century altar tomb dedicated to Sir Lancelot Threlkeld in the chapel on the north side of the chancel, and an octagonal stone font dated 1662.