Church Of St Ninian

The Church of St Ninian is a redundant parish church built in 1660 on a medieval site for Lady Anne Clifford, with a porch added in 1841. It features red sandstone rubble walls supported by regularly spaced buttresses, while the porch is made of reeded red sandstone ashlar. The roof is covered with graduated greenslate and includes a 19th-century west bellcote. The church consists of a 4-bay nave and a single-bay chancel under a common roof. The porch has a Tudor-arched doorway with a date panel above it. Both the nave and chancel have small round-arched windows with hollow double-chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. The chancel also includes a south round-arched priest's doorway under a hoodmould. The windows on the east and west walls are similar but slightly taller than those on the north and south walls. The porch covers a flattened segmental-headed 17th-century doorway.

Inside, much of the original woodwork from the 1660s remains, including a 9-bay roof with collar-beam trusses that have curved braces and short kingposts above the collar beams. Original box pews are present, with some on the north side restored to their original height and featuring turned balusters. The chancel screen has turned balusters, although the central doors are missing. There is a 7-sided pulpit with a sounding board and a pedestal font on a 20th-century base dated 1662. The church contains three hatchments of arms and a poor box beside the door inscribed and dated 1663. The chancel features a plaster wreath enclosing the initials AP (Anne Pembroke) from 1660. The priest's door screen is made of carved 17th-century panels, and there is a heavy turned-baluster altar rail from the same period. Creed and Pater boards are located on the east wall. Various 18th and 19th-century wall plaques commemorate the Brougham family, with one set into the floor. A reset floor slab honors Cuthbert Bradley, the incumbent from 1624, and three additional slate slabs with brass figures and coats-of-arms from the 19th century record earlier members of the Brougham family. The church is now maintained by The Churches Conservation Trust.