Church Of The Holy Cross

The Church of the Holy Cross is a parish church that dates back to the late 13th to early 14th century, with significant alterations made in the late 15th century. The chancel was mostly rebuilt in the early 19th century, and there were additional restorations during the 19th century. The church features a tower made of dressed chalky stone with some flint, while the nave and aisles are rendered. The chancel is constructed of chequer brick with an ironstone plinth, and the roofs are primarily lead, except for the tiled chancel.

The church includes a chancel, nave, aisles, a west tower, a north porch, and a 19th-century north vestry. The 15th-century west tower has two stages, a battlemented parapet, diagonal buttresses, and two-light traceried openings in the bell chamber. Above the west door, there is a three-light cusped window, both openings featuring four-centred arches. The nave has a plain parapet and a three-bay clerestory with two-light cusped windows that have depressed heads. The aisles extend to the west, flanking part of the tower, and have moulded parapets and three-light cusped windows with flat heads, with three on the south side and two on the north. Low doorways between the west windows have chamfered two-centred arches, with the northern doorway located in the rendered porch.

The chancel features 19th-century traceried windows in the Decorated style, including two two-light windows on the south side, one on the north side, and a three-light east window with reticulated tracery. There is a lean-to vestry on the north side. Inside, the church has dressed clunch with plastered spandrels and aisle walls. The tower arch is double chamfered, with the inner order resting on moulded corbels. The nave arcades consist of four bays with double chamfered and stopped arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps, with the western arches being narrower than the others. Both the nave and aisle roofs are late 15th-century, featuring moulded beams that have been restored. The north aisle also includes a wide recess in the east wall with a shallow pointed head and a niche with a four-centred arch above. The chancel arch, dating from the late 13th century, is double chamfered and supported by semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps. There is a 19th-century aumbry and piscina.

Fittings in the church include a circular font with an altered moulded base, likely from the 13th century, a 17th-century communion table that has been altered, and 19th-century glass in the chancel. Other fittings are also from the 19th century. There are brasses commemorating Reginald Manser from 1462, Thomas Knyghton from 1522, and James Tornay from 1519.