Church Of St Hilda

The Church of St Hilda is a parish church built between 1785 and 1786 on the site of a 16th-century church. It is constructed from coursed hammer-dressed red sandstone with flush quoins on a projecting plinth, which likely belongs to the original church. The roof is made of graduated greenslate. The church features a three-bay preaching box with a west porch, topped by a square bellcote or tower with a pyramidal spire. The entrance has a 19th-century tracery-panelled double door set in a recessed pointed arch, which continues upward to form the bellcote with louvred vents. Throughout the church, there are three-light windows with level pointed heads. Inside, the church contains late 19th-century furnishings and fittings, including a panelled ceiling and a screen that creates a western vestibule, both decorated with bubble-leaf ornament. The east and south windows feature stained glass from 1890. The west wall displays a brass plaque dedicated to Richard Barwis of Islekirk Hall, dated 1648.