Church Of St Patrick

The Church of St Patrick, formerly known as the Church of St Gregory, is a parish church built in 1852 by the architectural firm Sharpe and Paley on the site of an earlier church. The chancel was rebuilt in 1892 and the church incorporates a 15th-century window in the tower and niches in the chancel from the original structure. The building is constructed from squared limestone blocks with roughly-cut limestone dressings for the nave and sandstone dressings for the chancel, topped with a graduated slate roof featuring stone ridge and copings. It is designed in the Perpendicular style and consists of a west tower, a nave with a north aisle, a chancel, and a vestry. Notable architectural features include a chamfered plinth and cornice, a square four-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, a string course at each stage, bell openings on all sides of the fourth stage, battlemented parapets, and an octagonal stair turret at the south-west corner, which has slit windows and a pointed-arched door. The gabled south porch has a slate roof and stone copings, with a depressed arch doorway that features a hoodmould and heavy roughly-dressed stone labels.

Inside, the nave has a four-bay A-frame roof with curved braces, while the chancel has a one-bay barrel-vaulted roof. The north aisle contains three three-light windows, the south side of the nave has three two-light windows, and there is one two-light window in the chancel. The west and east ends of the church feature four-light windows with stained glass depicting saints, along with a variety of other late 19th-century and early 20th-century glass, including a central window on the south side of the nave by Heaton Butler and Bayne of London. The pulpit commemorates the death of William Henry Wakefield of Sedgwick House in 1889. The church stands as a prominent landscape feature that dominates the surrounding area.