Church of St Cuthbert

The Church of St Cuthbert is a church built between 1847 and 1848 by William Butterfield for Viscount Downe. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, featuring a graduated stone slate roof and a shingled spire. The church is designed in the early 14th-century Gothic style and comprises a four-bay nave with a south aisle, a south porch, and a west tower; a lower two-bay chancel and a north vestry are also present.

The tower has two stages, with a wide, shallow vice on the south side, featuring offsets and a slit window. It has a two-light west window with a cinquefoil below a quatrefoil window, a square-headed two-light north window, and two-light louvred belfry openings. The spire is broached and topped with a weather-cock.

The steeply-gabled porch has a cusped wooden-arched entry, cusped bargeboards, and small two-light windows to the returns. The inner door is contained within a pointed-arched surround of two chamfered orders. The south aisle has plain two-light windows, a circular window with decorative tracery in the west end, and a three-light and two-light window on the north side.

The chancel has single and two-light windows on the south side, and an east window of three lights with a traceried circle at the top and a head-stopped hoodmould. The vestry has a shouldered-arched door with side-lights, and a raised east verge with coping and a cross-finial.

Inside, the church exhibits a double-chamfered tower arch, a pointed-arched aisle arcade of two hollow-moulded orders with simple decorative motifs and a moulded chancel arch. The nave has crown-post roof trusses with quadrant braces. Other interior features include an encaustic tile floor with a coat of arms, a simple aumbry and piscina, a painted panelled roof over the altar in the chancel, an octagonal font with carved sides and a tapering octagonal wooden cover with an iron finial. A simple brass memorial is set in the chancel floor to Walter Thomas Magnus, who died in 1550 and was Archdeacon of the North Riding.